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Pakistan's truck art masters fret over NATO withdrawal
Dec 31, 2013 (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 ...
Eight police station 'attackers' shot dead in China's Xinjiang: govt
Dec 30, 2013 (AFP)
Eight "attackers" armed with knives and explosives were killed Monday during a "terrorist attack" on a police station in China's Xinjiang according to authoriti...
Former Xinjiang vice party chief probed in China
Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)
A former deputy Communist party chief in China's restive Xinjiang region is being investigated for "disciplinary and law violations", authorities said Friday, t...
Three NATO personnel killed in Kabul suicide car bomb
Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)
A Taliban suicide attacker detonated an explosives-packed car next to a NATO military convoy in Kabul on Friday, killing three NATO personnel and injuring six c...
Pakistan, Indian army commanders meet on Kashmir
Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)
Leading army commanders from Pakistan and India met Tuesday for the first time in 14 years in a bid to reduce tensions in the disputed region of Kashmir after a...
Six women among Uighurs killed in Xinjiang clash: rights groups
Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)
Six Uighur women were among 16 people killed in a clash in China's restive Xinjiang region last week, campaign groups said, contradicting Beijing's version of e...
Outside View: America and the Kurds
Dec 23, 2013 (UPI)
The most common question asked as a regular visitor to Iraqi Kurdistan is whether it or all Kurds can, will or wish to be independent. It reflects the long stru...
Karzai should sign US pact: new German defence minister
Dec 22, 2013 (AFP)
Germany's first female defence minister visited troops in Afghanistan on Sunday and appealed for President Hamid Karzai to sign a troubled deal to allow some fo...
NATO opens post-2014 talks with Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2013 (AFP)
NATO opened negotiations with Afghanistan on Saturday over a proposed military force to stay in the country after next year, but said no deal would be signed un...
Afghan Taliban torch US vehicles at Pakistan border
Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)
Taliban fighters wearing army uniforms attacked US military vehicles in a parking lot in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one policeman and to...
Restive Xinjiang needs 'ethnic healing': Chinese media
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
China's state-run media Tuesday called for "ethnic healing" in the restive Xinjiang region, a day after two policemen and 14 members of the mostly Muslim Uighur...
Syria Kurds aim for unified front ahead of peace talks
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
The two main Syrian Kurdish groups held talks in Iraq on Tuesday, aiming to establish a unified front ahead of a peace conference in Switzerland next month, an ...
Last Australian combat troops leave Afghanistan
Dec 16, 2013 (AFP)
Australian combat troops have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday, marking the end of the nation's longest war w...
US insists Karzai must sign Afghan troop deal
Dec 16, 2013 (AFP)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai must sign a bilateral security deal on the future of American troops in the war-torn country as soon as possible, a senior US offi...
Clash in China's Xinjiang kills 16
Dec 16, 2013 (AFP)
Sixteen people were killed in a clash in China's restive Xinjiang region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, reports and activists said Monday, less tha...
Facing threats, Afghan interpreters plead for US visas
Dec 15, 2013 (AFP)
After a five-year wait, Mohammad Janis Shinwari is relieved to be in the United States, safe from the threats of the Taliban. But as a former interpreter for US...
Kerry eases deadline for signing Afghan troops deal
Dec 15, 2013 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday appeared to give Afghan President Hamid Karzai extra time to sign a bilateral security deal, saying the pact did not ...
Afghan president says does not 'trust' US
Dec 14, 2013 (AFP)
Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in New Delhi on Saturday he no longer "trusts" the United States, accusing the Americans of saying one thing and doi...
Karzai warns against 'intimidation' on US troop deal
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
Afghanistan will not be bullied into signing a security pact allowing US troops to stay on after next year, President Hamid Karzai said as he pressed India on F...
Karzai to discuss troubled US troop deal with India PM
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was to hold talks with Indian leaders Friday, with Washington hoping that New Delhi can help persuade him to sign a deal allowing ...
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