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Ex-POW captured in Afghanistan 'wanted to be Jason Bourne'
Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)
The US soldier who was held five years by Taliban-linked insurgents says he walked off his base in Afghanistan in a stunt to prove he was like fictional CIA mov...
Afghan president arrives in Islamabad to revive Taliban talks
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani arrived in Islamabad Wednesday hoping to revive peace talks with the resurgent Taliban, as he opened a regional conference that ha...
India and Pakistan to resume peace process
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
India and Pakistan agreed to resume high-level peace talks on Wednesday, according to a joint statement that signalled a thaw in tense relations between nuclear...
NATO to keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan next year
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
NATO will keep some 12,000 troops in Afghanistan for an extra year in 2016 to prevent the country again becoming a terrorist safe haven, alliance head Jens Stol...
Coalition's Kurd-heavy anti-IS strategy risky: analysts
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
The US-led coalition has made Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish forces primary allies against the Islamic State jihadist group, but over-reliance on the Kurds carries ri...
Pakistan and Afghan leaders vow to resume Taliban peace talks
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to work together to revive stalled peace talks with Taliban insurgents after meeting on the sidelines of a climat...
Pakistan airstrikes kill 17 militants: army
Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistani fighter jets killed 17 militants Friday in airstrikes carried out in the country's remote tribal belt near the Afghan border, the military said in a s...
Afghan army in rescue bid for Taliban chopper crash hostages
Nov 25, 2015 (AFP)
The Afghan army launched a rescue operation Wednesday to retrieve 18 hostages, including two Moldovans, who were captured by the Taliban after their helicopter ...
US strike on Afghan hospital was 'frightening catalogue of errors': MSF
Nov 25, 2015 (AFP)
The US investigation into a deadly air strike on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan showed a "frightening catalogue of errors" by American ...
Taliban seize 15 soldiers after Afghanistan helicopter crash
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
Fifteen soldiers including two foreigners were taken hostage by the Taliban on Tuesday after their helicopter crash-landed in northern Afghanistan, local offici...
Thirsty for fame: Pakistan's camel-mounted military bagpipe band
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
A haunting peal reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands reverberates across Pakistan's inhospitable Cholistan desert the nation's first camel-mounted military bag...
Chinese police shoot dead 28 from 'terrorist group': authorities
Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese police have killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, authorities announced Friday, in the bloodiest such operation...
US rebuilding in Afghanistan beset with waste: inspector
Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)
Chronic corruption, poor planning and wasteful spending are bedeviling American reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, a top US inspector warned Wednesday. The ...
Germany extends Afghanistan mandate, boosts troop count
Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)
Germany, the third biggest supplier of international troops to Afghanistan, moved Wednesday to extend the deployment's mandate until the end of 2016 and slightl...
13 Kurdish rebels killed in new southeast Turkey air strikes: army
Nov 16, 2015 (AFP)
Turkish warplanes carried out a new wave of air strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeast, killing 13 rebels overnight, the army...
China's new Silk Road: boom or dust for Pakistan?
Nov 15, 2015 (AFP)
A glossy highway and hundreds of lorries transporting Chinese workers by the thousands: the new Silk Road is under construction in northern Pakistan, but locals...
Pakistan to sign economic zone deal with China: official
Nov 11, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's poorest province is set to sign a deal with China Wednesday allotting thousands of acres of land for Beijing to develop a massive special economic zo...
Blaming the Kalash for calamity in northwest Pakistan
Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)
Conservative Muslims in Pakistan's northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that flattened entire villages in October, claiming their ...
Two Tajik military officers stabbed to death amid recruitment drive
Nov 09, 2015 (AFP)
Two military officers from a conscription office in ex-Soviet Tajikistan were stabbed to death amid a recruitment drive for the country's impoverished and viole...
Pakistan army chief to visit US, hold talks on Afghanistan: officials
Nov 08, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif is set to visit the United States next week to hold talks with top officials on security issues including the stalle...
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