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US drones kill four in Pakistan: officials
Mar 22, 2013 (AFP)
US drones fired two missiles at a vehicle in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt Thursday, killing four militants, security officials said. The attack took plac...
Car bomb kills 13 at Pakistan refugee camp: officials
Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)
A car bomb hit a Pakistani refugee camp Thursday, killing 13 people including women and children, raising further fears for the security of a May general electi...
Turkey awaits 'historic' ceasefire call by Kurdish rebel chief
Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)
Jailed Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan was set to call a "historic" ceasefire on Thursday, raising expectations for an end to a three-decade conflict with T...
Afghan government says NATO war 'aimless, unwise'
Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)
Afghanistan's presidential spokesman on Tuesday described the NATO-led military operation in the war-torn nation as "aimless and unwise", in the latest broadsid...
Jailed Kurdish leader confirms Turkey ceasefire call
Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has confirmed he will call for a "historic" ceasefire on Thursday, the start of the Kurdish New Year, a lawmaker said after...
Pakistani Taliban defer peace talks offer
Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan's Taliban Monday deferred its offer of peace talks with the government over its lack of "seriousness", urging voters to boycott upcoming elections. Par...
US commander warns Karzai remarks put troops at risk
Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)
The US commander in Afghanistan has warned his troops face an increased threat of attack from militants and rogue Afghan forces after a series of inflammatory a...
US commander warns Karzai remarks may fuel violence
Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)
The US commander in Afghanistan has warned troops that they face an increased threat of attack after a series of inflammatory anti-US comments by President Hami...
Karzai says he wants to 'correct' US-Afghan ties
Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)
President Hamid Karzai on Thursday said he wanted to "correct" rather than damage US-Afghan relations, after a storm of protest over his recent anti-US remarks....
Kurd rebels free Turkish prisoners amid peace push
Mar 13, 2013 (AFP)
Kurdish rebels on Wednesday freed eight Turkish prisoners in response to a new peace push by Ankara to end a 29-year-old insurgency in southeast Turkey. Speakin...
US spy agencies more pessimistic on Afghan war
Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)
After 12 long years of war in Afghanistan the best US intelligence can say is that a reslient Taliban is "diminished in some areas," spy agencies said Tuesday i...
Hagel displays caution in minefield of Afghanistan
Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)
Faced with inflammatory remarks from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and insurgent bombings, Chuck Hagel showed an abundance of caution in his first visit to Afgh...
White House rejects Karzai's charges
Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)
The White House on Monday strongly rejected allegations from Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the United States was colluding with the Taliban to justify the ...
Azeri police detain 60 in army deaths protest
Mar 10, 2013 (AFP)
Azeri police on Sunday arrested about 60 protesters demonstrating against the deaths of 15 soldiers who were killed in accidents or were allegedly abused by the...
11 militants killed in Orakzai
Mar 08, 2013 (UPI)
Pakistani security forces have killed 11 insurgents in Pakistan's Orakzai northwestern tribal region. Orakzai is one of Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous northwe...
Knife attack in China's Xinjiang kills 4: government
Mar 08, 2013 (AFP)
Several knife-wielding attackers killed four people and wounded eight others in China's ethnically-divided western region of Xinjiang, a government official sai...
Pakistan middle class fixes sights on China
Mar 08, 2013 (AFP)
When Misbah Rashid taught Chinese 30 years ago, few signed up. Today his department has more than 200 Pakistani students, increasingly attracted by the prospect...
NATO contractor killed in Afghan 'insider attack': officials
Mar 08, 2013 (AFP)
A NATO civilian contractor was killed by three people wearing Afghan security force uniforms on Friday in the latest suspected "insider attack" to target the in...
US, China take part in Pakistan naval drills
Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)
The United States and China began naval drills in the Arabian Sea with Pakistan and other countries on Thursday, the Pakistani navy said, in a show of strength ...
Taliban kill 17 Afghan soldiers: officials
Mar 06, 2013 (AFP)
Taliban militants killed 17 Afghan soldiers in the far northeast in one of the deadliest single attacks on government security forces in recent years, officials...
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