WELLINGTON, New Zealand — As the U.S., China and other powers vie for strategic influence in Pacific Island militaries, the ...

The move is meant to solidify the two nations' defense cooperation in a region where China is flexing its military muscles.

Officer cadets in action during Exercise Santici in Central Hawke’s Bay. The streets of Waipukurau recently hosted about 100 ...

But New Zealand's small military footprint presents challenges too. King inherited an army described within the defense force ...

Exercise Cartwheel involved soldiers from 16th Field Regiment, Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery and 1st Battalion, ...

The Israeli army on Sunday, October 6, invited reporters to an exhibition of weapons and munitions it says were seized from Hamas militants in the year since the October 7 attacks on southern Israel.

Jakarta and Wellington denied Monday a claim by rebels in Indonesia's restive region of Papua that a New Zealand pilot was ...

Missiles follow Israeli ground operation in Lebanon as sirens sound across Israel. The Israeli army says that its troops freed a Yazidi woman who had been held in Gaza after being captured by ...

New Zealand’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Rose King, has highlighted the challenges Pacific Island nations face with foreign military training in an interview with The Associated Press WELLINGTON ...

The appointment of New Zealand Army officer Maj. Gen. Hugh McAslan is the highest-level senior posting of an officer from a foreign military into the Australian forces. The corresponding ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — As the U.S., China and other powers vie for strategic influence in Pacific Island militaries, the army chief of New Zealand told The Associated Press that not all of ...

The army’s highest ranking official, who was appointed in June, is the first woman to lead a branch of the New Zealand military. “One of the things we’re hearing from some of the Pacific ...