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Commander linked to Islamic State killed in Afghanistan
Feb 09, 2015 (AFP)
A NATO drone strike in Afghanistan on Monday killed a former Taliban commander and Guantanamo detainee who was suspected of links to the Islamic State group, of...
Pakistan military says 25 militants killed in air strikes
Feb 04, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's military said it killed 25 militants in air strikes on tribal regions near the Afghan border Wednesday as part of a major offensive against the Talib...
Americans killed in Kabul worked on Afghan aircraft
Jan 30, 2015 (AFP)
Three American contractors killed in an apparent "insider attack" at Kabul airport were helping on maintenance of a small turboprop plane used by the Afghan air...
Wrath of Khan: Netflix show Polo-rises Mongolians
Jan 29, 2015 (AFP)
The big-budget American series "Marco Polo", on the 13th-century Venetian explorer and his years at the court of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, is riddled with...
Details of aid to Afghan army now secret: US
Jan 29, 2015 (AFP)
The US military will no longer divulge facts and figures about its costly effort to assist Afghan security forces, declaring the information top secret, officia...
Pakistan military says killed 76 militants in air strikes
Jan 27, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's military said it killed 76 militants in two separate air strikes on Tuesday as part of a major offensive against the Taliban and other insurgents in ...
Pakistan air strikes kill 35 militants in northwest: military
Jan 25, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan's military said it killed 35 militants in fresh air strikes early Sunday as part of a major offensive against the Taliban and other insurgents in the n...
Police kill two Uighurs in south China: state media
Jan 19, 2015 (AFP)
Police in southern China shot dead two Uighurs trying to cross the border into Vietnam, state media reported Monday, with rights groups saying repression at hom...
One killed in Kyrgyzstan border attack
Jan 17, 2015 (AFP)
One border guard was killed and two wounded in an armed attack close to Kyrgyzstan's volatile border with Central Asian neighbour Tajikistan, official said Satu...
US funded Afghan training base that later crumbled: watchdog
Jan 15, 2015 (AFP)
The United States wasted nearly $500,000 on an Afghan police training center that began to fall apart only months after it was built due to shoddy contractor wo...
Police kill six attackers in China's Xinjiang: govt
Jan 12, 2015 (AFP)
Police in China's far-western Xinjiang region shot dead six attackers Monday, a state-run news portal said, amid a security clampdown in the violence-torn, main...
China denies retaliation against Uighur journalist's family
Jan 09, 2015 (AFP)
Beijing on Friday denied seeking to retaliate against relatives of a US-based journalist from the mostly-Muslim Uighur minority, one day after Washington voiced...
DynCorp to provide training support in Afghanistan
Jan 09, 2015 (UPI)
Another U.S. company has been contracted to provide support services for the training of security forces in Afghanistan. DynCorp International reports the first...
Virginia company to help NATO train Afghan troops
Jan 08, 2015 (UPI)
NATO is to receive advisory and assistance services from a U.S. counterterrorism company in the training of Afghanistan's national security forces. Virginia-hea...
Xinjiang faces 'intense struggle' says region's top Communist
Jan 07, 2015 (AFP)
The top Communist Party boss in China's Xinjiang region said in an article published Wednesday that the restive mainly Muslim province faces a period of "intens...
Iran arrests 'terror' cell in southeast
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
Iran arrested a "terrorist cell" accused of killing soldiers in a flashpoint border area and detained in a separate incident three Afghans planning to fight in ...
Opinion: No more terrorism and patronage under de facto military government in Pakistan
Jan 05, 2015 (UPI)
The notorious leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mullah Fazlullah, was killed in an air strike in Afghanistan on Dec. 19. Fazlullah masterminded many ru...
31 militants killed in Pakistan airstrikes: officials
Jan 03, 2015 (AFP)
At least 31 militants were killed Saturday during airstrikes by Pakistani fighter jets in the country's restive northwest, the military said. The attacks, which...
Pakistani boat blows self up after India navy chase
Jan 02, 2015 (AFP)
The crew of a Pakistani fishing boat blew up and sank their vessel after trying to evade capture at the hands of the Indian navy in a high-speed chase at sea, o...
Afghanistan faces economic timebomb as NATO war ends
Jan 02, 2015 (AFP)
The Taliban insurgency may still be raging but the poor state of the economy could pose a bigger threat to Afghanistan's long-term viability, and huge mineral r...
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