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Pakistan's 'bad boys' - alleged codes behind secret memo
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
An American businessman who has implicated Pakistan's president in an attempt to remove the country's powerful army chief claimed Thursday that security bosses ...
NATO denies responsibility for Afghan school attack
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force Thursday denied involvement in what Afghans said was a helicopter attack on a school that injured nine chi...
Pakistan president behind secret memo to US: witness
Feb 22, 2012 (AFP)
A key witness in Pakistan's "Memogate" scandal Wednesday said he delivered a secret memo seeking American help to avert a feared coup after Islamabad's ambassad...
Pakistan receives US surveillance aircraft
Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)
The Pakistani navy took delivery Tuesday of two state-of-the-art, US-made surveillance aircraft nine months after Islamist militants destroyed two similar plane...
Chinese leader begins Turkey talks amid Uighur protests
Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Tuesday began talks with Turkey's leaders on issues including the crisis in Syria and trade after a flag-burning protest by...
Afghan inmates passed messages in Korans: officials
Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)
The US military removed Korans from a US-run prison in Afghanistan because inmates were suspected of using the sacred book to pass messages to each other, Ameri...
Secretive Navy SEALs take starring role in new film
Feb 19, 2012 (AFP)
The secretive Navy SEALs are coming out of the shadows for a new Hollywood film, with elite commandos cast in starring roles in a radical departure for America'...
Afghanistan tells troops to move families from Pakistan
Feb 18, 2012 (AFP)
Afghanistan's defence ministry has begun ordering soldiers who have families in Pakistan to move them to Afghanistan in a bid to rid the army of Taliban infiltr...
NATO strike not coordinated with Afghans: minister
Feb 18, 2012 (AFP)
A NATO air strike that killed eight young Afghans last week was not coordinated with Afghan police, the interior minister said Saturday, contradicting what the ...
US missiles kill 13 in Pakistan: officials
Feb 16, 2012 (AFP)
Two US drone strikes struck Islamist militants in Pakistan's tribal badlands on Thursday, killing at least 13 fighters in North Waziristan near the Afghan borde...
Afghan teens were armed when bombed: NATO
Feb 15, 2012 (AFP)
The US-led NATO force in Afghanistan on Wednesday conceded that eight young men were killed during a recent air strike but insisted they were armed teenagers wh...
Former Taliban leader dies in prison
Feb 14, 2012 (UPI)
A former senior Afghan Taliban leader, once considered a possible peace negotiator, died in a Pakistani prison, the Taliban said on their Web site. The notice s...
US, Afghans near deal on post-2014 mission: Panetta
Feb 14, 2012 (AFP)
US and Afghan officials are weeks away from clinching a security pact allowing an American military mission to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014, Defense Secretar...
NATO admits Afghan children killed in Kapisa
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
The US-led NATO force in Afghanistan on Monday conceded that several children died during a bombing raid last week in the northeast province where French troops...
Iraqi Kurdistan says citizen seized by PKK dead
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
The interior ministry of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Monday that Kurdistan Workers' Party rebels had kidnapped three Iraqi citizens, one of whom ...
Kurd rebels say no casualties in Turkish air raids
Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)
The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said on Sunday that it sustained no casualties in Turkish air strikes on border areas of northern Iraq. "Turkish warpla...
Turkmen strongman set for landslide re-election
Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)
Turkmenistan recorded near-maximum turnout Sunday in elections that should see President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov cruise to a new term at the helm of the isol...
US gambles on special forces in Afghanistan strategy
Feb 11, 2012 (AFP)
As it draws down troops in Afghanistan, the United States plans to rely heavily on its special forces, gambling the elite troops can serve as a firewall to prev...
Afghan troop boasts of shooting Australians: report
Feb 11, 2012 (AFP)
An Afghan soldier who opened fire on Australian troops at a remote base last year has claimed he and his fellow army recruits had often discussed killing the fo...
NATO airstrike killed eight children: Karzai
Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)
A NATO airstrike killed eight children in Afghanistan's Kapisa province northeast of the capital Kabul, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. The president "str...
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