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The SAS "mentoring" role in Kabul amounts to a "substantial combat role", the Government has admitted.

Najibullah Lafraie, a former Afghanistan foreign minister, joins us from 2.30pm today for a live chat om the path to peace.

At least nine people were killed and 23 injured in four Taleban attacks on Kabul's diplomatic district overnight, with NZ SAS troops "mentoring" Afghanistan's Crisis Response Unit. A NZ Defence Force spokesman said the attack was complex...

<strong>Genital surgery barely registers on scale of today's headline-grabbers.</strong>

Former heads of the Defence Force have rejected claims made by Nicky Hager in his latest book that a NZ base in Afghanistan is home to a CIA unit, while new Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae described as "abhorrent", the suggestion that

A new book on the war in Afghanistan reveals that the base which has long housed New Zealand soldiers carrying out reconstruction and aid work is also home to covert operatives from America's Central Intelligence Agency.

Reports there were delays in deploying troops during the attack in which Corporal Doug Grant was killed are being examined by the Defence Force.

A review of the operation in which an SAS soldier died on Friday night in Afghanistan will be held to see what can be learned, the Defence Force says.

The SAS trooper killed in Afghanistan is a married father of two, the <I>Herald on Sunday</I> has been told.

Prime Minister John Key says he accepts full responsibility for the deployment of New Zealand troops in Afghanistan but he sees no need to end their service early after the death of an SAS soldier yesterday.