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China makes more arrests over Xinjiang violence
Apr 29, 2013 (AFP)
China has arrested 11 more suspects over clashes in the ethnically divided region of Xinjiang last week that left 21 people dead, state media said Monday. China...
Pakistani liberal leaders condemn bombings
Apr 29, 2013 (UPI)
The leaders of two of Pakistan's secular liberal political parties condemned recent Taliban-orchestrated bombings that left 17 people dead ahead of next month's...
Afghan youths rename 'Scud Hill' in quest for peace
Apr 28, 2013 (AFP)
Once it was known as "Scud Hill" -- a launching pad for Scud missiles during the Soviet occupation and subsequent civil war and a symbol of Afghanistan's violen...
Uighur 'separatist' visits Taiwan
Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)
A controversial figure accused by China of inciting violence in the ethnically divided Xinjiang region, where clashes with police this week saw 21 people killed...
Turkey says forces will take 'care' during Kurdish rebel pullback
Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)
Turkey said Friday its forces would show "great care" during a pullback starting next month by Kurdish rebels heading back to their bases in Iraq, in a major st...
NATO says war against Afghan's Taliban being won
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
NATO insisted Thursday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is being won, despite reports by other organisations of a sharp upsurge in insurgent atta...
Kurdish rebels to begin withdrawal from Turkey on May 8
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
Kurdish rebels announced on Thursday they would on May 8 begin withdrawing from Turkey into their safe haven in northern Iraq amid a peace drive between Ankara ...
Commentary: AFPAK: No silver lining
Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)
He has the skill sets of a gifted politician and of a soldier with impressive operational experience in Afghanistan and he now sounds the alarm that if we don't...
Bomb attacks wound 17 in Pakistan: police
Apr 24, 2013 (AFP)
Bomb attacks wounded 17 people in Pakistan on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate in the run-up to historic general elections in the nuclear-armed coun...
Unrest in China's Xinjiang region kills 21 people
Apr 24, 2013 (AFP)
Twenty-one people, including police officers and social workers, were killed in violent clashes in China's ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, offici...
NATO welcomes Karzai ahead of US, Afghan, Pakistan talks
Apr 23, 2013 (AFP)
NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday as the alliance prepares for a difficult withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 afte...
Kerry to meet Karzai, Pakistan military, diplomatic heads
Apr 22, 2013 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on Wednesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the head of Pakistan's armed forces and Pakistan's foreign minister....
Into darkness: the art of troop life in Afghanistan
Apr 21, 2013 (AFP)
Watching the solemn parade of special forces soldiers climb into their trucks, blessed by a priest, and drive into the grey Afghan night, Australian artist Ben ...
NATO welcomes German troop pledge for Afghanistan
Apr 19, 2013 (AFP)
Germany's offer to station 600-800 troops in Afghanistan after NATO's combat role ends next year could encourage others to step up to the plate, the head of the...
Germany ready to keep up to 800 troops in Afghanistan
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
Germany on Thursday offered to keep 600-800 troops in Afghanistan for two years from 2015, after the end of NATO combat operations there, to help train and advi...
10 Maoists die in clash with Indian police
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
Police said at least 10 rebel Maoists were killed during a clash in a remote area of the eastern state of Chhattisgarh. The fighting took place in the tribal Ba...
Musharraf disqualified from Pakistan election
Apr 16, 2013 (AFP)
Pervez Musharraf was Tuesday disqualified from contesting Pakistani elections next month, crushing his ambition to "save" the troubled nuclear-armed country jus...
Obama speaks to Karzai, days after strike kills civilians
Apr 09, 2013 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for what officials said were regular consultations, three days after a NATO air str...
Commentary: Road to nowhere
Apr 08, 2013 (UPI)
Karachi, Pakistan's only port city, is a mega-conglomerate of 20 million that is now under a reign of fear induced by a "Taliban mafia." But the Pakistani pictu...
Musharraf wins bid to run in elections
Apr 08, 2013 (UPI)
Pakistan's electoral commission has allowed former military dictator and returned exile Pervez Musharraf to run in the May parliamentary elections. Pervez came ...
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