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Iraq's new jets likely from Iran: experts
Jul 02, 2014 (AFP)
Three Sukhoi ground attack jets shown landing in Iraq in a video released by the defence ministry are likely from Iran, a think tank said Wednesday. Iraq has pu...
Indian guru still hopes for peaceful way in Pakistan
Jun 29, 2014 (AFP)
The Indian guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's efforts to encourage peace in Pakistan ended in an armed attack, but he still believes dialogue is the best path with the...
US drones over Baghdad as Iraq battles for Tikrit
Jun 28, 2014 (AFP)
The US military has started flying armed drones over Baghdad to defend American troops and diplomats as Iraqi forces took their fight against Sunni insurgents t...
Unprecedented Kurdish peshmerga deployment in Iraq
Jun 28, 2014 (AFP)
The onslaught by Sunni Arab militants in northern Iraq has prompted the country's Kurds to deploy the famed peshmerga security forces in defence of their autono...
Syria carried out Iraq border strike on militants, PM tells BBC
Jun 26, 2014 (AFP)
The Syrian air force carried out air strikes targeting militants along the Iraq-Syria border this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the BBC on Thur...
Iraqi Kurds say future of disputed Kirkuk in their hands
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
Beneath the ancient citadel in Iraq's Kirkuk, the flag of Kurdistan -- green, white and red stripes overlaid with a yellow sun -- flaps alongside market stalls....
US Army officer named as new commander for Afghanistan
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel on Tuesday nominated an army officer who commanded troops in volatile eastern Afghanistan to take over command of the US-led force in...
China arrests 380 in first month of 'terrorism' crackdown
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
China has arrested more than 380 suspects in the first month of a year-long crackdown on "terrorism", media said Monday as authorities grapple to curb rising vi...
Three US troops, military dog killed in Afghan blast
Jun 21, 2014 (AFP)
A Taliban attack killed three American soldiers and a military dog in southern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, in the latest sign of the insurgents' capa...
China says 13 attackers killed in Xinjiang assault
Jun 21, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese police shot dead 13 people in Xinjiang after they drove into a police building and set off an explosion Saturday, regional authorities said, in the late...
Persecuted Pakistani Muslim minority seek refuge in China
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
Fleeing discrimination and violence, members of a Muslim sect have abandoned their homes in Pakistan to find an unlikely refuge in China. "Every day I heard the...
Fellow soldier says Bergdahl 'wanted to hunt and kill'
Jun 18, 2014 (AFP)
A member of Bowe Bergdahl's unit in Afghanistan told Congress Wednesday that the recently released US Army sergeant "wanted to hunt and kill" Taliban, even whil...
Multiple Xinjiang executions no answer to violence: experts
Jun 17, 2014 (AFP)
When China put 13 people to death in one day for terrorism offences in mainly Muslim Xinjiang, it raised the spectre of the mass executions of years past. But e...
China executes 13 for Xinjiang 'terrorist attacks'
Jun 16, 2014 (AFP)
China executed 13 people Monday for "terrorist attacks" in the violence-wracked northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media said, as death sentences were issue...
Pakistan deploys troops, jets in anti-militant offensive
Jun 16, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan on Monday launched fresh air strikes on the northwest tribal region where it has deployed up to 30,000 troops in a long-awaited offensive to eliminate ...
US Army opens probe into ex-POW Bergdahl's disappearance
Jun 16, 2014 (AFP)
The US Army has launched an investigation into why Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl went missing and was later captured by Afghan insurgents in 2009, officials said Monda...
80 killed as Pakistan bombs militant hideouts after airport attack
Jun 15, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistani fighter jets launched air strikes Sunday against militant hideouts in the country's troubled northwest, killing at least 80 insurgents including those...
Former POW Bergdahl stable after return to US
Jun 13, 2014 (AFP)
The American soldier freed in a swap with the Afghan Taliban is in stable condition after five years in captivity but has not yet reunited with his parents, mil...
Xinjiang extremists rejecting Beijing's 'care': official
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
An extremist minority that rejects the Chinese Communist Party's "care" is to blame for rising violence stemming from China's restive Xinjiang region, an offici...
Freed US soldier Bergdahl to return Friday
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
The American soldier released in a controversial swap with Afghan insurgents will return to the United States on Friday, US officials said, as letters showed he...
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