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US commander to visit Pakistan for border talks
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
The US commander in Afghanistan will hold talks in Pakistan on Thursday for the first time since Islamabad ended a seven-month blockade on NATO supplies destine...
India allows investments from Pakistan
Aug 01, 2012 (AFP)
India on Wednesday overturned its ban on foreign investment from Pakistan in a move designed to build goodwill amid a renewed push for a peace settlement betwee...
China resricts Ramadan fasting in restive Xinjiang
Aug 01, 2012 (AFP)
Authorities in China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have banned Muslim officials and students from fasting during Ramadan, prompting an exiled rights...
Pakistan, US sign NATO convoy deal
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistan on Tuesday signed a deal with the United States allowing NATO convoys to travel into Afghanistan until the end of 2015, seeking to draw a line under a ...
Smuggling at heart of Tajikistan violence
Jul 31, 2012 (UPI)
The violence that led to the deaths of 48 people in Tajikistan was triggered by the arrest of rebels on cigarette smuggling charges, the government says. The Ta...
Georgian soldier injured in Afghanistan dies: ministry
Jul 30, 2012 (AFP)
A Georgian soldier injured in January while serving with NATO-led forces in Afghanistan has died in a military hospital back home, the defence ministry said in ...
NATO trucks suspended for 5th day at Pakistan crossing
Jul 30, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistani officials said Monday that a ban on NATO trucks at the main border crossing into Afghanistan will last until the government promises to safeguard secu...
Afghan forces deaths outstrip NATO's 5-1: officials
Jul 29, 2012 (AFP)
Afghan security forces are dying at five times the rate of NATO soldiers as Taliban insurgents step up attacks ahead of the withdrawal of foreign troops in 2014...
US drone kills seven militants in Pakistan: officials
Jul 29, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone attack Sunday killed at least seven militants in Pakistan, officials said, days before the country's intelligence chief visits Washington with the co...
Afghanistan insurgent attacks up 11 percent: NATO
Jul 27, 2012 (AFP)
Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan rose by 11 percent in the past three months over the same period last year, according to the latest figures released by NATO's ...
Kurds protest arrest of activist in Turkey
Jul 27, 2012 (UPI)
The recent sentencing of the Kurdish activist Leyla Zana to 10 years in prison for a speech she gave in 2007 to commemorate the Kurdish New Year has prompted pr...
Pakistan suspends NATO supply route over security
Jul 26, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistan has temporarily stopped NATO supply trucks crossing its northwestern border into Afghanistan over security concerns due to fears of Islamist attacks, o...
Afghan president warns of corruption crackdown
Jul 26, 2012 (AFP)
Afghanistan's Western-backed President Hamid Karzai admitted Thursday that his government was corrupt and issued a sweeping directive for reform ahead of the wi...
'New generation' of tech-savvy Taliban fighters
Jul 25, 2012 (AFP)
Once seen as uneducated thugs, the Taliban are producing dangerous new fighters who use the latest digital technology to plan and publicise attacks against NATO...
NATO supply trucks surge at Pakistan border
Jul 25, 2012 (AFP)
The flow of trucks supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan has surged at a key Pakistan border crossing in recent days, officials said Wednesday, despite a deadly ...
Gunmen attack NATO supply trucks in Pakistan
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
Gunmen in Pakistan attacked trucks bound for NATO in Afghanistan Tuesday, killing a driver, officials said, in the first such incident since supply lines reopen...
Leaders pan Nagorno-Karabakh elections
Jul 24, 2012 (UPI)
Presidential elections in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic have added fuel the long-simmering conflict there, world leaders say. Bako Sahakyan last we...
Five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Jul 22, 2012 (AFP)
Five NATO soldiers were killed in three separate attacks in Afghanistan at the weekend, the International Security Assistance Force said Sunday. Four died in tw...
Bomb destroys 22 NATO supply trucks
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
A Taliban bomb attack Wednesday destroyed 22 fuel tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, local officials said, as 12 Afghan soldiers and two ...
Afghan soldier sentenced to death for French killings
Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)
An Afghan soldier has been sentenced to death for killing five French soldiers in a "green-on-blue" attack in Kapisa province in January, the defence ministry s...
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