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Suspected Kashmir rebels kill Indian air force corporal
May 05, 2024 (AFP)
The convoy was attacked by an unknown number of armed militants who sprayed automatic rifle fire towards at least one air force truck in the mountainous Poonch ...
Erdogan expects new NATO chief to address Turkey's terror concerns
Apr 26, 2024 (AFP)
Erdogan said fight against terror was one of the leading topics during his discussions with outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who was in Istanbul to ral...
NATO holds army cadet training in Uzbekistan
Apr 17, 2024 (AFP)
Ex-Soviet Uzbekistan has close ties with Moscow and has also held multiple rounds of talks on boosting economic cooperation with Taliban officials from neighbou...
Iraq tightens grip on autonomous Kurdish region
Apr 06, 2024 (AFP)
Long-simmering disputes between Baghdad and Arbil, the capital of the northern region, came to a head recently after several Supreme Court rulings seen by the K...
Pakistan PM orders police punished after Chinese dam worker attack
Apr 06, 2024 (AFP)
The attack in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province forced Power China and the China Gezhouba Company to suspend work on two dam projects after the bombing k...
Pakistan police detain 12 over bombing of Chinese workers
Apr 02, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing is Islamabad's closest regional ally and a key investor in Pakistan's faltering economy, but Chinese citizens have frequently been targeted by Islamist ...
PKK commander killed in Iraq strike blamed on Turkey
Apr 02, 2024 (AFP)
Turkey has carried out ground and air operations in northern Iraq against positions of the PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish st...
Pakistan official says China halts work on two projects after deadly attack
Mar 29, 2024 (AFP)
The companies have demanded that Pakistan authorities come up with new security plans before reopening the sites where around 1,250 Chinese nationals are workin...
Pro-Kurdish candidate fights anti-migrant sentiment in local Turkish elections
Mar 24, 2024 (AFP)
Veli Sacilik, 47, made a name for himself with a 2017 photograph of demonstrations in Ankara against a civil service purge, where he is seen struggling with his...
Seven Pakistan militants killed storming China-linked port: officials
Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)
Pakistan has for decades battled a simmering insurgency in southwestern Balochistan province, where separatists hostile to Islamabad have often targeted foreign...
Fighting halted on Afghanistan-Pakistan border after skirmishes: Taliban govt
Mar 19, 2024 (AFP)
"The situation is calm, the fighting has stopped," Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP. Pakistan carried out strikes in the border areas in...
NATO chief urges Armenia, Azerbaijan peace deal
Mar 19, 2024 (AFP)
Both countries' leaders have recently said that they were closer than ever to the signature of a comprehensive peace deal, following years of fruitless internat...
Afghanistan retaliates after Pakistani air strikes kill 8
Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)
Border tensions between the two countries have steadily escalated since the Taliban government seized power in 2021, with Islamabad claiming militant groups are...
Iraqi Kurdish party to boycott local polls in tussle with federal court
Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said it would not take part in the June 10 vote following a February ruling by the Federal Supreme Court to amend the elect...
7 soldiers killed in attack on Pakistan security post: army
Mar 16, 2024 (AFP)
Members of an armed group attacked the security post near Mir Ali in the early hours of Saturday, the army's communication service (ISPR) said in a statement. "...
Turkish ministers in Baghdad talks ahead of Erdogan visit
Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to visit Iraq after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which ends in April, said a joint statement following ...
Turkish officials due at security meeting in Iraq Thursday
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defence Minister Yasar Guler and spy chief Ibrahim Kalin will all attend the meeting in Baghdad, spokesman Oncu Keceli to...
'Sacred job': Iraq Kurds digitise books to save threatened culture
Mar 10, 2024 (AFP)
Seen as the world's largest stateless people, the Kurds are an ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million mostly spread across modern day Iraq, Iran, Syria and T...
Three killed in Iraq strikes blamed on Turkey
Mar 08, 2024 (AFP)
Turkey often carries out ground and air operations in northern Iraq against positions of the PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish ...
Afghan museum exhibits artefacts of Taliban victory
Mar 07, 2024 (AFP)
"It doesn't have any old history, but it all played an important role in the victory," says museum director Abdul Qayum Ansari. "This has exceptional meaning fo...
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