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Pakistan, India swap lists of nuclear facilities, prisoners
Jan 01, 2015 (AFP)
Pakistan and India on Thursday exchanged lists of their nuclear sites under an agreement barring them from attacking each other's atomic facilities in the event...
Top official in China's restive Xinjiang transferred
Dec 31, 2014 (AFP)
The second most senior official in China's strife-torn Xinjiang region has been transferred, reports said Wednesday, after the area saw some of its worst violen...
Looking back on Afghanistan: a US soldier remembers
Dec 30, 2014 (AFP)
The Taliban couldn't have given Douglas Livermore a more memorable welcome when he landed in Kabul in June 2013 to begin his Afghanistan deployment. "I got in o...
Afghan soldiers at small outpost vow to hold firm as US exits
Dec 29, 2014 (AFP)
One ergonomic office chair, heaters that don't work and some maps are the only signs that US troops once battled daily with the Taliban at Siah Choy, a small co...
Taliban claim NATO 'defeat' in 13-year Afghan war
Dec 29, 2014 (AFP)
The Taliban responded scornfully Monday to the formal end of NATO's war in Afghanistan, describing the US-led mission as a "fire of barbarism and cruelty" that ...
Pakistan airstrikes, gun battle kill 55 militants
Dec 27, 2014 (AFP)
At least 55 militants were killed in airstrikes and a gun battle with ground forces in Pakistan's troubled northwest where the military launched a major offensi...
Obama praises US troops as Afghanistan mission winds down
Dec 26, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama in a Christmas Day speech to US troops stationed in Hawaii hailed their "extraordinary dedication and sacrifices," as NATO prepares to wr...
Afghan officials say NATO air strike kills five civilians
Dec 26, 2014 (AFP)
Afghan officials said that a NATO air strike on Friday killed five civilians and wounded six others, just days before the US-led military coalition ends combat ...
Pakistan announces anti-terrorism action plan after school attack
Dec 24, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan on Thursday said it will set up military courts for terror-related cases, as part of an ambitious anti-terrorism plan following a deadly Taliban school...
India panel slams Kashmir govt over poor flood warning
Dec 22, 2014 (AFP)
An Indian parliamentary panel report on Monday slammed Kashmir state authorities for failing to adequately warn local residents of the deadly floods that swept ...
Pakistan cleric says anti-Taliban fight 'un-Islamic'
Dec 19, 2014 (AFP)
The head of a hardline Islamabad mosque Friday called an army offensive against the Taliban "un-Islamic" and said the militants' massacre of 133 children was in...
Pakistan forces kill 27 militants in northwest: military
Dec 18, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistani forces killed 27 suspected militants in air strikes and a ground operation Thursday in the restive northwest hours after a roadside bomb killed three ...
Capital of China's Xinjiang to ban burqas in public: report
Dec 11, 2014 (AFP)
Authorities in the capital of the mainly Muslim Uighur homeland of Xinjiang voted to ban the wearing of burqas in public, media said Thursday, as China confront...
US watchdog warns of top seven threats to Afghan reconstruction
Dec 10, 2014 (AFP)
Corruption, weak armed forces and a huge budget gap -- a US watchdog overseeing rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan Wednesday released a list of seven "high-risk ...
Students of Uighur scholar jailed for 'separatism': lawyer
Dec 09, 2014 (AFP)
Seven students of a prominent scholar from China's Uighur minority have been convicted of separatism in a secret trial and given prison sentences of three to ei...
Eight sentenced to die for attacks in China's Xinjiang: CCTV
Dec 08, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese court condemned eight people to death Monday for two deadly attacks in Xinjiang, as Beijing cracks down hard on violence in the homeland of the mostly...
'Key commanders' among 30 militants killed in Pakistan
Dec 08, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistani airstrikes have killed at least 30 militants including a local warlord's "important commanders" in the country's restive northwest where the military ...
US drone strike kills four in NW Pakistan
Dec 07, 2014 (AFP)
A US drone strike killed at least four militants and wounded two others in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border on Sunday, security officials...
US military's job 'not over' in Afghanistan: Hagel
Dec 07, 2014 (AFP)
Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel on Sunday told US troops in Afghanistan their mission was not over as they shift to a scaled-back role training their Afghan counterp...
Obama, Ghani to mull Afghan troop levels in 2015 talks
Dec 03, 2014 (AFP)
US leaders will discuss whether to prolong the timetable for the withdrawal of American troops with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani when he visits Washington earl...
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