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Iraq condemns 'repeated Turkish attacks' after Kurdish officers killed
Sep 19, 2023 (AFP)
Monday's strike on Arbat airfield, southeast of the city of Sulaimaniyah, also wounded three members of the counterterrorism forces of Iraq's autonomous region ...
3 dead in drone strike on Iraqi Kurdistan airfield: statement
Sep 18, 2023 (AFP)
"Unfortunately the bombing killed three of our Peshmerga comrades from the anti-terrorist services" and wounded three others, the statement said, without identi...
Turkish strike kills 4 PKK members: Baghdad ups support Iraqi Kurdistan
Sep 17, 2023 (AFP)
"A senior official from the Kurdistan Workers' Party and three fighters were killed when a Turkish army drone targeted their vehicle in the Jal Mir region on Mo...
State-backed tourism booms in China's troubled Xinjiang
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road oasis, was more recently on the frontlines of Beijing's sweeping anti-terrorism campaign in the northwestern region. The city's ou...
Iraq moves against Iranian Kurdish groups: minister
Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)
"The necessary measures have been taken to remove these groups from the border areas, and they have been settled in distant camps in the centre of Kurdistan," a...
Blocked roads, crumbling camps as China moves Xinjiang detentions out of sight
Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)
Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been swept into internment camps where human rights abuses are commonplace, researchers, campaign...
China's Uyghur villages hide their secrets after Xinjiang crackdown
Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)
Others lie dilapidated or abandoned, and locals chase out AFP reporters seeking to find out the fates of the detained. The Chinese government began rounding up ...
Armenia says Azerbaijan preparing fresh 'military provocation'
Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)
The ex-Soviet republics have been locked in a decades-long conflict over the mostly Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan which is con...
Iraq Kurd makeup artists held for posts 'dressed as women'
Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)
Las Hawta, 17, and Rinas Fadhil Ali were both arrested on Wednesday evening, said a source in the prosecutor's office in the regional capital Arbil. Their Insta...
Iraqi Kurds protest unpaid salaries from Baghdad
Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)
The protest occurred in a region where activists usually accuse local Kurdistan authorities of repressing any sign of dissent. It came in the context of simmeri...
UN says pushing for action on abuses in China's Xinjiang
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
"The situation in Xinjiang remains of concern," the UN rights office told AFP, one year after it published a bombshell report detailing a litany of violations i...
Amnesty calls for action on rights in China's Xinjiang
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
On the first anniversary of the report, Amnesty lamented that the international community, including parts of the United Nations, had "shied away from the kind ...
Iran warns Iraq to disarm Kurdish rebels
Aug 28, 2023 (AFP)
"According to a deal reached between the Iranian and Iraqi governments, the Iraqi government has pledged to disarm armed terrorist groups in Iraq by September 1...
China's Xi stresses 'hard-won social stability' in rare Xinjiang visit
Aug 26, 2023 (AFP)
The Chinese government has pursued a years-long campaign against what it describes as terrorism and Islamic extremism in the northwestern region, detaining larg...
Turkish drones kill 7 PKK members as FM meets Iraq Kurds
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
Both strikes hit the mountainous Sidakan subdistrict, north of the regional capital Arbil, where the PKK maintains rear bases in its nearly four-decade-long ins...
Jailed Kyrgyz activists go on hunger strike
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
"Six prisoners sent a letter on August 22 to inform of their refusal to eat and start a hunger strike because of their trial," the Kyrgyz prison service told AF...
Two militants killed attacking convoy of Chinese workers in Pakistan
Aug 13, 2023 (AFP)
A spokesman for China's consulate in Karachi said none of its nationals were killed or wounded in the attack, and urged Chinese citizens to heighten their vigil...
Turkish drone strike kills three Kurd rebels: Iraq Kurds
Aug 11, 2023 (AFP)
For a quarter of a century, Ankara has maintained dozens of military bases in northern Iraq where it regularly conducts operations against PKK commanders and re...
Six Turkish troops killed in northern Iraq: ministry
Aug 10, 2023 (AFP)
The soldiers were killed by fire from "the separatist terror organisation", it added, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) listed as a terro...
Turkish drones kill 2 PKK members in Iraq: Kurdish officials
Aug 09, 2023 (AFP)
The first strike hit a PKK car near the village of Jalala in the province of Sulaimaniyah, killing "a PKK intelligence official" and wounding two members of the...
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