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Indian soldiers in Kashmir gun down two suspected rebels
Sep 28, 2024 (AFP)
Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between rivals India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947, and both claim the Himalayan terr...
'Russian NATO' loses ground in Moscow's former backyard
Sep 20, 2024 (AFP)
Bogged down by its all-out war on Ukraine, now dragging through a third year, Russia is visibly losing its historic role as the key power broker in both Central...
One dead in north Iraq strike blamed on Turkey
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
A member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was among the victims, the same source added, without specifying whether he was dead or wounded. The decades-long...
Iran president arrives in Iraqi Kurdistan on day two of visit
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
It is Pezeshkian's first foreign trip abroad since he took office in July. Stepping off his plane in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Pezeshkian was welco...
Iran president makes 'historic' visit to Iraqi Kurdistan
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
Pezeshkian's visit to Iraq is his first trip abroad since he took office in July. The Kurdistan leg is the latest sign of warming relations between Iran and the...
How did Iran tame Kurdish opposition exiled in Iraq?
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
Who are the Iranian Kurds living in Iraq, and how did the government in Tehran use its influence with Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan to contain the exiled minority? -...
Turkey strikes PKK bases in northern Iraq
Sep 09, 2024 (AFP)
The defence ministry said it had on Monday destroyed "21 targets" in Metina, Gara, Hakurk and Qandil believed to house senior members of the Kurdistan Workers' ...
Iraq's Kurdish authorities extradite activist to Iran: group
Sep 07, 2024 (AFP)
Behzad Khosrawi was arrested last week by security forces in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah and handed over to "Iranian intelligence", said the Kurdish Democ...
Drone strike kills 3 in Iraq's Kurdish region: official
Sep 05, 2024 (AFP)
"This afternoon, a drone attacked a pick-up, killing three people, including a child," Osman Anwar, the district governor of Chwarta, where the attack took plac...
House Republicans subpoena Blinken to testify on Afghanistan withdrawal
Sep 03, 2024 (UPI)
Republicans of the committee have been officially investigating the 2021 withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan since January of last year, and McCaul...
Syria blast kills senior commander in Kurdish security forces: monitor
Sep 03, 2024 (AFP)
"A commander in the Kurdish security forces was killed and another person was wounded" in an explosion near the prison in Umm Fursan on the outskirts of the cit...
Turkey says launched fresh air strikes on PKK in N. Iraq
Sep 03, 2024 (AFP)
The defence ministry said it had struck "20 targets" in Asos, Gara, Hakurk, Metina, Qandil and Zap. It alleged they were "caves, bunkers, shelters, depots and i...
China says 'willing to engage' with UN rights body on Xinjiang
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
The UN rights office (OHCHR) warned on Tuesday that "problematic" policies persist in Xinjiang, two years after its bombshell report citing possible "crimes aga...
UN calls out China's ongoing 'problematic' policies in Xinjiang
Aug 27, 2024 (AFP)
China has been accused of incarcerating more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region -- charges Beijing vehemen...
Turkey and Iraq agree military pact against PKK
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
"We are going to raise our cooperation to the highest level thanks to joint command and training centres included in this agreement," Turkish Foreign Minister H...
Taliban celebrate 3 years since Afghanistan takeover with military show
Aug 14, 2024 (AFP)
The Taliban's armed forces towed Soviet-era tanks and artillery pieces through the former US air base in Bagram, where Chinese and Iranian diplomats were among ...
Families split by India-Pakistan rivalry lose hope
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
Indian apricot farmer Ghulam Ahmad, 66, separated from his parents as a teenager in the chaos of war that saw control of his village swap from Pakistan to India...
Pakistan's former spy chief in military custody
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
Lieutenant general Faiz Hameed, who stepped down in December 2022, was accused of abusing his power and raiding the businesses of a private housing developer, a...
Kurdish fighters kill Turkish soldier in Iraq: ministry
Aug 07, 2024 (AFP)
The soldier was shot by fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been involved in an on-and-off armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, t...
Turkey stages artillery strikes on Kurd fighters in Iraq
Jul 27, 2024 (AFP)
While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this month said operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq were coming to an end, a security source in no...
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