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India urges Pakistan to act after air force base attack
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his Pakistani counterpart Tuesday to take "firm and immediate action" against those behind an attack on an Indian air ...
Pakistan seeks closer military ties with Sri Lanka
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called Tuesday for closer military cooperation with Sri Lanka on an official visit to the island. Pakistan was a key supp...
Siege near India's Afghan consulate ends after 25 hours
Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)
A 25-hour gun and bomb siege near the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif city ended late Monday, after a bloody weekend assault on an air base in ...
Indian troops search air force base after weekend battles
Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)
Indian troops backed by helicopters searched an air force base Monday after a weekend of fierce fighting with insurgents left seven soldiers dead. The ongoing o...
Fresh gunfire at Indian air force base in Punjab: police
Jan 03, 2016 (AFP)
A fresh gunbattle erupted Sunday at the Indian air force base attacked by suspected Islamic militants a day earlier with the loss of 11 lives, police said. Offi...
Pakistan army courts sentence nine militants to death
Jan 01, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistan military courts have sentenced nine men to death for terrorism-related offences or attacks on minority Shiites, the army said Friday. Pakistan has hang...
Pakistan, Afghanistan set up military hotline
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan and Afghanistan have established a hotline between their respective military commanders and made first contact Wednesday, the Pakistani military said. ...
US general: More troops may be needed in Afghanistan
Dec 30, 2015 (AFP)
The top US and NATO military commander in Afghanistan may seek additional American troops to help local forces as they struggle to contain the Taliban insurgenc...
Pakistan hangs four men sentenced by military courts
Dec 29, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged four men sentenced to death by military courts for assisting in suicide bombings and attacks on soldiers, officials said. The executi...
Pakistan's Baloch activists take separatist battle online
Dec 27, 2015 (AFP)
Images of burned villages and charred bodies, clips of people screaming for help: with a wall of silence hindering traditional media, insurgents are using socia...
India's Modi on surprise 'goodwill' Pakistan visit
Dec 25, 2015 (AFP)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise "goodwill" visit to arch-rival Pakistan on Friday, with the first such trip in a decade seen as a step towar...
US air strikes in Afghan district under Taliban siege
Dec 24, 2015 (AFP)
The US launched air strikes Thursday to bolster Afghan forces scrambling to beat back Taliban insurgents who seized large swathes of a key opium-rich district, ...
Turkey PM lambasts pro-Kurdish party leader's Russia visit
Dec 22, 2015 (AFP)
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday criticised a visit to Russia by the main Kurdish opposition party leader, at a time when Ankara is at loggerhe...
Taliban bomber kills three NATO soldiers near Kabul: officials
Dec 21, 2015 (AFP)
At least three foreign soldiers were killed Monday when a Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a joint NATO-Afghan patrol near Bagram airbase outside...
Turkey's pro-Kurdish party leader to visit Moscow this week
Dec 21, 2015 (AFP)
The leader of Turkey's opposition pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples' Party (HDP) will meet Wednesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow for talk...
Pentagon chief in Afghanistan as violence escalates
Dec 18, 2015 (AFP)
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Afghanistan Friday for meetings with military commanders, as the security situation deteriorates with a surge in T...
Pakistan airstrikes kill 23 militants: army
Dec 18, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistani fighter jets killed 23 militants Friday in airstrikes carried out in the country's remote tribal belt near the Afghan border, the military said in a s...
Afghan security worse in second part of 2015: Pentagon
Dec 15, 2015 (AFP)
The overall security situation in Afghanistan deteriorated in the second half of 2015, with an increase in insurgent attacks and higher casualties among both Ta...
Death toll rises to 42 in Afghan hospital strike, MSF says
Dec 12, 2015 (AFP)
The death toll from a devastating US air strike on an Afghan hospital in October has risen to 42, medical charity MSF said Saturday, citing an internal probe as...
Pakistan central bank predicts economic boost as security improves
Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's central bank said Friday that it expects an economic boost as the security situation improves, voicing confidence days ahead of the one-year annivers...
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