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US weighs 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, or none
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
US military leaders have proposed keeping 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after NATO's combat mission ends in December -- or else pull out all American forces, a U...
Key Pakistani cleric quits Taliban peace talks
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
A Pakistani cleric with close ties to the Taliban said Wednesday he would no longer act as a government-backed peace broker with the militants after airstrikes ...
Pakistan jet fighters kill 20 militants: officials
Jan 21, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships began airstrikes in a northwestern tribal district Tuesday, killing more than 20 militants in retaliation for two...
Blast near Pakistan military HQ kills four: officials
Jan 20, 2014 (AFP)
A suspected suicide bombing in a market close to Pakistan's military headquarters on Monday killed at least four people, officials said, a day after one of the ...
Seven detained as Turkish forces raid Kurdish town
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
Turkish security forces on Sunday raided a Kurdish town where the army launched a botched air strike in 2011 that killed dozens of people including children, lo...
Army retaliates after 20 Pakistan soldiers killed in bomb attack
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan army helicopters fired missiles killing three militants on Sunday, officials said, in apparent retaliation for a Taliban bomb attack that killed 20 sol...
China paper attacks 'malicious' detained Uighur academic
Jan 18, 2014 (AFP)
China must punish the "brains" behind terrorists and fight against those who preach with "malicious intent", a state-run newspaper said Saturday in an editorial...
China detains prominent Uighur academic: wife
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
Police in China have detained a prominent Uighur academic and outspoken critic of government policy towards the mostly Muslim minority, his wife said on Thursda...
Afghan president accuses US of killing 7 children in airstrike
Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)
President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday accused the United States of killing seven children and a woman in an airstrike in central Afghanistan -- an incident set to...
Fire breaks out at Musharraf hospital in Pakistan
Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)
A fire broke out early Wednesday at the Pakistani hospital where former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was admitted for a heart condition, officials said. "The...
Obama defends Afghan strategy after Gates comments
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
Barack Obama insisted Monday he had faith in the Afghan war mission after former Pentagon chief Robert Gates charged the president lacked passion for military a...
Obama says has 'faith' in Afghan strategy
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
Barack Obama insisted Monday he had faith in his Afghanistan strategy, after a book by former his defense secretary claimed the president had soured on his troo...
Jailed Kurd leader warns peace process cannot remain in 'limbo'
Jan 11, 2014 (AFP)
Jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan warned in a statement on Saturday that the peace process initiated with the Turkish state cannot remain in limbo forever, ...
Killing of boy, 4, by US troops frays Afghan ties further
Jan 10, 2014 (AFP)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned US troops for killing a four-year-old boy in the southern province of Helmand, in a fresh strain to troubled r...
Obama didn't believe his own war strategy: Gates
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
Former defense secretary Robert Gates has delivered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's handling of the war in Afghanistan in a revealing new memoir...
Turkey clears army over deadly attack on Kurds
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
Turkish military prosecutors on Tuesday cleared five army officers accused of perpetrating a botched air strike on Kurds in 2012 that killed dozens of people in...
Pakistan's truck art masters fret as NATO withdrawal looms
Jan 05, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan's truck artists, who transform ugly lorries into flamboyant moving works of art, fear boom times for their trade could be at an end as NATO winds down ...
NATO soldier killed in Afghan multiple suicide attack
Jan 04, 2014 (AFP)
Six Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a joint Afghan-NATO base in the east of Afghanistan on Saturday, killing one NATO soldier during a prolonge...
China voices anger over release of Uighur Guantanamo trio
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
China voiced anger Thursday over the transfer of three Uighurs from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to Slovakia, branding them "terrorists" who will po...
Uighur group urges independent probe into Xinjiang violence
Dec 31, 2013 (AFP)
An exile Uighur group on Tuesday demanded Chinese authorities allow independent investigations into a clash in Xinjiang where eight "attackers" were shot dead b...
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