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Afghan soldier kills NATO ally in 'insider' attack
Sep 26, 2013 (AFP)
An Afghan soldier opened fire Thursday on his NATO trainers, killing one and wounding several others in the country's east, officials said. Attacks in which Afg...
Iraq Kurds dream of independence but differ on details
Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)
Voters in Iraq's Kurdish region may have had differing views at the ballot box during weekend polls, but there is one dream which unites virtually all of them: ...
Christians fear fresh attacks after Pakistan church bombing
Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)
A devastating double suicide attack on a church in northwest Pakistan has triggered fears among the country's beleaguered Christian community that they will be ...
Afghan Twitter users meet face-to-face as web booms
Sep 22, 2013 (AFP)
More than 200 of Afghanistan's most active users of Twitter and Facebook gathered Sunday for the country's first-ever social media summit to explore how the Int...
Three US troops killed in Afghan 'insider attack'
Sep 21, 2013 (AFP)
An Afghan soldier shot dead three US troops Saturday, officials said, in the latest "insider attack" to shake efforts by the two armies to work together to defe...
Pakistan arrests 12 over NATO tanker attacks
Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistani security officials said Thursday they had arrested 12 members of a gang involved in torching and destroying shipments for NATO troops in Afghanistan. ...
US still hopes for Taliban talks: envoy
Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)
A US envoy said Monday that Washington still hoped to talk directly with the Taliban to support an Afghan peace deal but that the militants seemed unwilling to ...
NATO fuel tankers destroyed in Pakistan: officials
Sep 15, 2013 (AFP)
At least nine tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan were destroyed after an explosion in one of the vehicles triggered a huge fire in southwest P...
Taliban releases 'pointless' for Afghan peace
Sep 14, 2013 (AFP)
Afghan officials say Pakistan's release of 33 Taliban prisoners from jail, a policy initially trumpeted by Kabul as an opportunity to ignite peace talks, has re...
Pakistan's nuclear father dissolves political party
Sep 14, 2013 (AFP)
The father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, has dissolved his political party after it failed to win a single seat in the May 11 elections. Khan, ...
US military looks to cut cost of Afghanistan pullout
Sep 13, 2013 (AFP)
Pentagon officials are holding talks in Afghanistan on the withdrawal of US military equipment from the country, officials said Friday, as Washington hopes to l...
China sentences 3 to death over Xinjiang unrest
Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese court Thursday sentenced three people to death and another to 25 years in jail over violent unrest in the ethnically-divided Xinjiang region in which ...
Pakistan to release senior Afghan Taliban prisoner
Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan is to release its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a former military chief often described as the insurgents' ex-second in com...
US envoy doubts complete Afghan withdrawal
Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)
A US envoy on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that Washington would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan after next year, saying that both countries wanted to pre...
Kurdish rebels halt withdrawal from Turkey: report
Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)
Turkey's Kurdish rebels have halted withdrawing their fighters from Turkish territory, which is a key part of a peace plan, accusing Ankara of not abiding by th...
NATO airstrike kills at least 10 civilians: Afghan officials
Sep 08, 2013 (AFP)
At least ten civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike on a pickup truck carrying women and children in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan provincial officials sa...
Karzai condemns NATO airstrike
Sep 08, 2013 (AFP)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday condemned a NATO airstrike that according to local officials killed up to 16 civilians, as elsewhere a Taliban attack left ...
Pakistan releases seven Taliban prisoners
Sep 07, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan on Saturday announced the release of seven senior Afghan Taliban figures to help the peace process in war-torn neighbour Afghanistan, the foreign minis...
Drone kills Haqqani commander linked to captive US soldier
Sep 06, 2013 (AFP)
US missiles on Friday killed a commander in the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network involved in the abduction of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, Pakistanis said. Mullah S...
Pakistanis resume overland NATO oil supplies to Afghanistan
Sep 04, 2013 (AFP)
Overland oil shipments to NATO troops in landlocked Afghanistan resumed through Pakistan on Wednesday under tighter security after a five-month suspension due t...
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