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To avoid Iraq-style chaos US must back Afghans: experts
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
Washington will have to stand by Afghanistan for years, training and funding its army until Kabul can sign a peace deal with the Taliban, or it will follow Iraq...
Afghanistan to sign US troop deal Tuesday
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
Ashraf Ghani's government will sign a long-delayed deal on Tuesday to allow some US troops to stay in Afghanistan into next year, US and Afghan officials said. ...
China sentences two to death for mosque attack: Xinhua
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
A court in China's far west has sentenced to death two teenagers for the killing of the head of the country's biggest mosque, state media reported, in a case th...
Airstrikes, gunfight kill 21 militants in NW Pakistan
Sep 28, 2014 (AFP)
At least 21 militants have been killed in airstrikes and a gunfight in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal areas, officials said Sunday. The air attacks were...
China says 40 'rioters' killed in restive Xinjiang
Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)
Forty "rioters" were killed in China's far-western Xinjiang region following a series of explosions last Sunday, the worst incident of violence in months, the r...
IS advance spells trouble for Turkey's Kurdish peace process
Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)
The advance of Islamic State (IS) jihadists through Syria's Kurdish areas has thrown a serious obstacle in the way of efforts to make peace between Turkey and K...
Uighur scholar sentenced to life urges 'peace' from prison: lawyer
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
A prominent Uighur academic sentenced to life in prison called Wednesday for "peace", his lawyer said, as China hit back at western powers which accused it of s...
US drones kill eight militants in NW Pakistan: officials
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
US drones Wednesday fired missiles at a compound and vehicle and killed at least eight militants in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, offic...
China jails Uighur scholar for life for 'separatism'
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
A prominent academic from China's mostly-Muslim Uighur minority was jailed for life Tuesday for "separatism", with the European Union expressing outrage at the ...
China jails Uighur scholar for life for 'separatism': lawyer
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent scholar from China's mostly-Muslim Uighur minority to life in prison for "separatism," his lawyer said, in a ca...
Missing Afghan soldiers tried to enter Canada: Pentagon
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
Three Afghan army officers who went missing during a training exercise at a US base have been found trying to cross the border into Canada, a Pentagon official ...
Blasts in China's Xinjiang kill two, injure 'many': govt
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
Two people were killed and "many" injured as explosions erupted in multiple locations in China's Xinjiang Sunday, according to authorities in the ethnically div...
Pakistani Kashmiris want India border opened for flood relief
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan-controlled Kashmir's parliament on Monday called upon India to open the de facto border separating the two sides of the disputed territory to allow res...
Syria Kurds flee from IS jihadists into Turkey
Sep 21, 2014 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey on Saturday, fleeing an onslaught by the jihadist Islamic State group that prompted an appeal for internat...
NATO eyeing 'very fast' security deal with Afghanistan
Sep 20, 2014 (AFP)
NATO's top military commander said Saturday the alliance was eyeing the rapid conclusion of security agreements with Afghanistan for its post-2014 mission in th...
China tries Uighur professor for separatism
Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese authorities put a prominent scholar from the mostly-Muslim Uighur minority on trial for separatism Wednesday as critics warned the prosecution will wors...
China puts Uighur professor on trial for separatism
Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)
A prominent scholar from China's mostly-Muslim Uighur minority will deny separatism at his trial Wednesday, as critics warn the prosecution -- in which he faces...
Hindu hardliners storm Indian university after Kashmir flood appeal
Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)
Hardline Hindu nationalists went on the rampage at a university in central India over an aid appeal for victims of devastating floods in Muslim-majority Kashmir...
Two Americans killed in Kabul suicide bombing: US official
Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)
Two Americans were among those killed in a Taliban suicide bombing Tuesday that targeted a NATO convoy in Kabul near the US embassy, a defense official told AFP...
Uighur academic to appear in Chinese court next week
Sep 12, 2014 (AFP)
A prominent Uighur academic, charged with separatism by Chinese prosecutors, will appear in court on Wednesday, his lawyer said. Ilham Tohti, who taught at a un...
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