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Afghan Taliban attack US base, NATO supply vehicles
Sep 02, 2013 (AFP)
Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen dressed as Afghan police attacked a US base near the Pakistani border on Monday and set dozens of parked NATO supply vehicles...
Up to 23 dead in Xinjiang clash: reports
Aug 29, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese policeman was killed in an "anti-terrorism" operation in the restive region of Xinjiang, state media reported Thursday -- an incident last week in whi...
Negotiations move forward on U.S.-Afghan security agreement
Aug 26, 2013 (UPI)
Negotiations on the status of forces in Afghanistan after 2014 are complicated by the question of whether and how to prosecute U.S. personnel accused of violati...
Karzai to visit Pakistan in quest for Taliban peace
Aug 25, 2013 (AFP)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to hold key talks with Pakistan's newly elected government on Monday, searching for direct communication with Taliban insurgent...
Death toll in Pakistan bombing rises to two: officials
Aug 23, 2013 (AFP)
The death toll in a roadside bomb attack targeting troops in Pakistan's port city of Karachi has risen to two, officials said Friday. The blast was aimed at sol...
Bomb kills one, wounds 16 in Pakistan's Karachi
Aug 22, 2013 (AFP)
A roadside bomb targeting troops killed a civilian and left 16 more people including 11 soldiers wounded Thursday in Pakistan's violence-plagued port city of Ka...
Pakistan accuses India of killing two soldiers in Kashmir
Aug 22, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan accused Indian troops Thursday of killing two soldiers in disputed Kashmir, the latest in a series of clashes which have raised tensions between the nu...
Pakistan says one dead in latest Kashmir clash
Aug 21, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan's military accused India Wednesday of killing an army officer and seriously wounding a soldier in the latest clash across the disputed border in Kashmi...
Pakistan's former ISI chief Hamid Gul accused of terrorist links
Aug 20, 2013 (UPI)
Charges that former Pakistani ISI chief Hamid Gul had terrorist links have appeared in the Indian press. Top Lashkar-e-Toiba, or "Army of God" bomb expert Abdul...
In bid to defuse Kashmiri tension, Pakistan to free Indian prisoners
Aug 19, 2013 (UPI)
Amid rising tensions along the Line of Control in Kashmir, Pakistan has offered to free 367 Indian prisoners within days. The gesture is intended to send a posi...
Uighur leader condemns China death sentences
Aug 15, 2013 (AFP)
An exiled leader of China's Uighur ethnic minority has condemned the death sentences passed on two people over what authorities called a terrorist attack in the...
Pakistani government prepares to hang Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists
Aug 15, 2013 (UPI)
The government of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is preparing to hang a trio of convicted Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N...
India PM tells Pakistan to stop 'anti-India activity'
Aug 15, 2013 (AFP)
Premier Manmohan Singh warned Pakistan Thursday against using its soil for "anti-India activity", following a fresh escalation of tensions between the nuclear-a...
Ex-NATO chief: 15,000 troops should stay in Afghanistan
Aug 14, 2013 (AFP)
The United States and its allies should immediately announce how many troops will stay on in Afghanistan after 2014, former NATO supreme commander Admiral James...
India accuses Pakistan of latest firing in Kashmir
Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)
India's army accused Pakistan on Tuesday of firing across the de facto border that divides Kashmir, in the latest confrontation fuelling tensions between the nu...
Afghan army's future depends on govt reforms: NATO
Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)
Afghanistan's fledging security forces will not be sustainable as they take on the Taliban unless major reforms are pushed through the government in Kabul, a se...
China academics say Xinjiang death sentences justified: media
Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)
Death sentences for two men over violence in China's ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang earlier this year were justified, official media on Tuesday q...
NATO says three soldiers killed in east Afghanistan
Aug 11, 2013 (AFP)
An insurgent attack in volatile eastern Afghanistan killed three foreign soldiers on Sunday, a statement said. The deaths bring the number of fatalities among f...
Iraqi Kurdistan 'ready to defend Syrian Kurds'
Aug 10, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdistan's leader threatened on Saturday to intervene to protect Kurds in neighbouring Syria, who are caught up in fighting between Kurdish forces and ji...
Three Chinese found murdered in Afghan capital: officials
Aug 10, 2013 (AFP)
Three Chinese citizens have been shot dead in their apartment in the Afghan capital while one of two others who were missing has been found alive, officials sai...
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