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Pakistan to form group to talk directly with Taliban
Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan on Thursday announced it was setting up a state committee to hold direct talks with the Taliban in a bid to accelerate the peace process. Dialogue aime...
Pakistan to resume Taliban peace talks: sources
Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)
Negotiators for the Pakistani government and the country's main Taliban faction are to meet Wednesday to restart peace talks that stalled more than a fortnight ...
Machete attack may signal wider China troubles: analysts
Mar 04, 2014 (AFP)
A brazen and bloody machete attack at a Chinese railway station could herald an ominous change in the violence Beijing blames on separatists from Xinjiang, anal...
China policeman tells of shooting Kunming attackers
Mar 04, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese state television on Tuesday broadcast an interview with a police officer said to have shot five knife-wielding thugs who killed and injured scores of pe...
Fear and anger as China reflects on attack
Mar 03, 2014 (AFP)
Defiant residents of the Chinese city where 29 people died in a mass stabbing queued to donate blood Monday, while others vented anger at what authorities say w...
Pakistan halts air strikes against Taliban
Mar 02, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan on Sunday said it was halting air strikes against Taliban militants in response to a month-long ceasefire announced by the insurgents a day earlier, pa...
Afghan Taliban shot at downed US helicopter 'head-on'
Feb 28, 2014 (AFP)
Taliban fighters shot at a US helicopter head-on from nearly point-blank range, US lawmakers heard Thursday, in what was the single deadliest incident for US an...
NATO begins planning for Afghanistan 'zero option'
Feb 27, 2014 (AFP)
NATO defence ministers agreed Thursday the military alliance must now begin planning for a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan this year despite wanting to mai...
US urges China to free Uighur academic
Feb 26, 2014 (AFP)
The United States on Wednesday urged China to free a prominent Uighur academic who faces charges that could carry the death penalty after criticizing government...
Obama warns Karzai of full troop withdrawal
Feb 25, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama told his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Tuesday he is now planning a full US troop withdrawal, but did not rule out agreeing a post-2...
Central Asia enters 'political turbulence zone' as Afghanistan threat grows
Feb 25, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Currently, when a critical time is approaching as the coalition troops are leaving Afghanistan, many observers expect a burst of activity of different radical g...
Pakistan airstrikes in northwest kill 30
Feb 25, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistani fighter jets bombarded Taliban hideouts in the troubled northwest Tuesday, killing at least 30 in the fourth airstrikes since peace talks stalled, in ...
Despite dangers, 'moderate' Taliban talk peace
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
Faced with the prospect of unending war in Afghanistan, a moderate faction of the Taliban is pushing hard for a new peace dialogue in a move fraught with danger...
Saudi 'seeking Pakistani arms for Syrian rebels'
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
Saudi Arabia is in talks with Pakistan to provide anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets to Syrian rebels to try to tip the balance in the war to overthrow Preside...
Pakistan air strikes on militant hideouts kill at least 38
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistani fighter jets on Sunday launched air strikes on militant hideouts in the northwest, killing at least 38 people, according to officials, in the latest r...
Roadside bomb kills 6 Afghan soldiers: official
Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)
A roadside bomb has ripped through an Afghan army vehicle in northeastern Afghanistan, killing six soldiers, the defence ministry said Tuesday. The soldiers wer...
Pakistan peace talks in crisis after killing of kidnapped soldiers
Feb 17, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday condemned as "heinous" the alleged execution of 23 kidnapped soldiers by the Taliban, casting doubt over peace ...
15 dead in 'terrorist attack' in China's Xinjiang: govt
Feb 14, 2014 (AFP)
A total of 15 people died in an "attack" in China's Xinjiang region on Friday, with eight "terrorists" shot dead by police and three blowing themselves up, havi...
Afghan prisoner release risk to security, rule of law: NATO
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
The release of 65 alleged Taliban fighters in Afghanistan poses serious security concerns and sets back the rule of law, NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Th...
Two US soldiers killed in Afghan 'insider attack'
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
Two Afghan men wearing military uniforms have shot dead two US soldiers, in the first suspected "insider attack" of the year as NATO troops withdraw after 13 ye...
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