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'I'm praying for you': MSF posts grim details from Afghan hospital strike
Nov 05, 2015 (AFP)
Medical charity MSF Thursday released chilling details from a devastating US bombing of an Afghan hospital, saying staff and patients had been decapitated and l...
Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebel targets again
Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)
Turkish warplanes have again struck Kurdish rebel targets in the southeast of the country and northern Iraq, the military said Wednesday. "Sixteen targets were ...
Turkey hits Kurd rebels, cracks down on Erdogan rivals
Nov 03, 2015 (AFP)
Turkey cracked down on rivals of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday and launched air strikes against Kurdish rebels, clearly signalling a return to hardl...
Three Kurds killed, Turkey strikes rebel bases
Nov 03, 2015 (AFP)
Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in Turkey and northern Iraq, the army said Tuesday, as officials announced the first militant deaths since the...
Britain to maintain troop presence in Afghanistan
Oct 28, 2015 (UPI)
Britain will maintain its troop presence in Afghanistan to continue training and supporting local military forces, the Ministry of Defense announced. Britain wi...
Britain to keep troops in Afghanistan into 2016: minister
Oct 27, 2015 (AFP)
Britain will keep its current level of 450 troops on non-combat missions in Afghanistan through 2016, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said in a written stateme...
Afghan local police lack support, inspector says
Oct 26, 2015 (UPI)
The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction released a performance audit revealing Afghan Local Police lack support. The audit notes an estimated $1...
Death toll rises to 30 from US strike on Afghan hospital
Oct 25, 2015 (AFP)
The death toll from a US air strike on an Afghan hospital has jumped to 30, Doctors Without Borders said Sunday, as an initial NATO probe conceded that the cata...
Pakistan premier urges US to take its side against India
Oct 23, 2015 (AFP)
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged the United States on Friday to take Pakistan's side in its long-standing dispute with rival nuclear power India or run the ris...
Obama, Pakistan PM set for tricky summit; as air strikes kill 21
Oct 22, 2015 (AFP)
President Barack Obama is expected to press Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on ties with the Taliban, nuclear safety and a range of other fraught issues T...
Ex-general tipped as new Pakistan security chief
Oct 19, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan is considering appointing a former general from the powerful military as the country's new security chief, an official said Monday, a move critics said...
US troop extension hands Afghanistan a lifeline - for now
Oct 18, 2015 (AFP)
The United States' decision to extend its military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016 has thrown the war-ravaged country's government a much needed lifeline ev...
Obama abandons pledge to pull troops from Afghanistan
Oct 15, 2015 (AFP)
President Barack Obama on Thursday announced thousands of US troops will remain in Afghanistan past 2016, retreating from a major campaign pledge as he admitted...
America's 14 years in the Afghan quagmire
Oct 15, 2015 (AFP)
America's longest war began in Afghanistan 14 years ago, sucking in hundreds of thousands of troops and costing Washington billions of dollars and huge politica...
Pakistan deploys 10,000 troops to prevent sectarian violence
Oct 14, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan is deploying some 10,000 troops and 6,000 paramilitary members to prevent sectarian violence during the holy month of Moharram, the interior minister s...
Pentagon chief: US not leaving Afghanistan
Oct 14, 2015 (AFP)
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Wednesday indicated the United States would maintain extra troops in Afghanistan beyond the end of next year. Under curren...
UN urges Iraq's feuding Kurds to respect democracy
Oct 14, 2015 (AFP)
Political parties in Iraq's Kurdish region, whose president's mandate expired in August, should respect democratic principles, the top UN envoy said Wednesday. ...
Opposition slams 'political coup' in Iraqi Kurdistan
Oct 12, 2015 (AFP)
Several Iraqi Kurdish politicians were barred from reaching their offices on Monday, in what the opposition called a "political coup" by the autonomous region's...
Iraqi Kurdish opposition party says asked to leave Arbil
Oct 11, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish opposition party Gorran said on Sunday its top politicians have been asked by the party of acting regional president Massud Barzani to leave the c...
Pentagon to make 'condolence payments' to Kunduz victims
Oct 10, 2015 (AFP)
The Pentagon announced Saturday it would make payments in compensation for those killed and injured by US airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in th...
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