John Key has justified the changes to the country's spying laws by saying some people in New Zealand have been trained by al-Qaeda.

Former NZ diplomat Warren Searell called Damascus home until the Arab spring made life far too dangerous. This is his story.

John Lindh travelled to Afghanistan to help the ruling Taleban fight against Russian-backed insurgents. Then 9/11 happened. US troops tortured him, tried him as a terrorist and jailed him for 20 years.

Kiwi journalist Glen Johnson, freed from jail in Yemen this week, is heading to Egypt to start chasing his next story.

Culturalism, schmulteralism: Mask wearers want no part of the West except our privileges, according to Paul Holmes.

The 28-year-old flew out of the troubled Middle Eastern country overnight and is believed to have...

If there is a day that a 'war on terror' can end, it might have been yesterday.