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Pakistan air strikes kill 31 militants in tribal areas: military
Sep 02, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's military on Wednesday said it had killed at least 31 militants in air strikes in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border. It said in a brief state...
Kurdish forces free seven villages in Iraq: officials
Aug 29, 2015 (AFP)
Western-backed Kurdish fighters freed seven villages from the clasps of the Islamic State group in northern Iraq in recent days, the US-led coalition battling t...
Mounting toll of Turkey's 'martyrs' stirs controversy
Aug 29, 2015 (AFP)
It has become a familiar scene in Turkey over the past month. Another soldier is laid to rest, parents grieving as the coffin is draped with the Turkish flag un...
China jails 45 in Xinjiang for illegal border crossing: Xinhua
Aug 27, 2015 (AFP)
China has jailed 45 people in its ethnically-divided Xinjiang region for "illegal border crossing", state media said Thursday, as a group representing the mainl...
Two American soldiers killed in Afghan 'insider attack'
Aug 26, 2015 (AFP)
A man wearing an Afghan military uniform shot dead two American soldiers in the country's south Wednesday, the coalition said, the first insider attack on forei...
Pakistan army chief approves increase in military courts
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday approved an increase in the number of military courts to handle pending terrorism cases in the southern c...
UN condemns first executions in Kurdish region in 7 years
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
The UN on Tuesday condemned the execution by the government of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region of three people convicted of murder and kidnapping, in the first...
Turkish soldier slams government at slain brother's funeral
Aug 23, 2015 (AFP)
A Turkish soldier whose brother was killed in an attack by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants launched a stinging attack Sunday on the government's "anti-t...
Pakistan rescues kidnapped Chinese tourist
Aug 23, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistani intelligence agencies have rescued a Chinese tourist kidnapped last year in an area close to insurgency-prone regions, it was announced Sunday. The un...
Air strikes kill 43 militants in NW Pakistan: military
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan air strikes killed 43 suspected militants near the Afghan border on Thursday, the military said, part of a major ongoing operation against Taliban and ...
Pakistan air strikes kill 18 more militants in tribal area: military
Aug 18, 2015 (AFP)
Air strikes have killed 18 militants in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border in the latest phase of a major operation against the Taliban and other insurge...
Pakistan air strikes kill 50 militants in tribal area: military
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
At least 50 militants were killed and their ammunition dump destroyed Monday in air strikes on hideouts in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, the milita...
India summons Pakistan envoy over civilian deaths in Kashmir
Aug 16, 2015 (AFP)
India summoned Pakistan's envoy in New Delhi Sunday to protest against civilian deaths in recent troop firings along their disputed border, hiking tensions ahea...
PKK leader warns of 'heavy price' amid new Turkey violence
Aug 14, 2015 (AFP)
A senior figure in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Friday warned that Turkey would pay "a heavy price" for its offensive against the rebels amid new deadl...
Germany says Iraqi Kurdish forces report chemical attack
Aug 13, 2015 (AFP)
Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in northern Iraq have reported being attacked with chemical weapons, the German defence ministry said Thurs...
Erdogan vows no let-up in fight against Kurdish rebels
Aug 12, 2015 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed to fight on against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, in the face of mounting attacks on secur...
Turkey strikes 17 PKK targets in southeast: army
Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)
Turkish war planes overnight carried out a new wave of air strikes against targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the country's southeast, the army sa...
Erdogan vows Turkey will attack PKK 'to last terrorist'
Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday vowed that Turkey would press on with its relentless campaign against Kurdish militants "until not one terrorist" was ...
Nearly 400 Kurdish rebels killed in 2 weeks of airstrikes: report
Aug 09, 2015 (AFP)
Nearly 400 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed and hundreds injured in two weeks of Turkish airstrikes on positions in northe...
US drone strike kills five militants in NW Pakistan
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
A US drone attack on a militant compound in a restive Pakistani tribal area Thursday killed at least five militants, security officials said. The drone strike t...
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