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Iran, Iraq sign border protection deal months after strikes on Kurds
Mar 19, 2023 (AFP)
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region hosts camps and rear-bases operated by several Iranian Kurdish factions, which Iran has accused of serving Western or Israeli...
Syria Kurds say nine fighters killed in Iraq crash
Mar 17, 2023 (AFP)
The SDF, which controls most of the northeast, has been a key ally of the US-led coalition fighting jihadists of the Islamic State group in Syria and neighbouri...
Helicopter crash kills five in Iraq's Kurdistan region
Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) -- which Ankara considers a terrorist organisation -- told AFP it was "investigating" the crash, without confirming or denying...
UN wants action from China on human rights concerns
Mar 07, 2023 (AFP)
Turk has been under pressure from Western nations and rights organisations to take a firm stand on Xinjiang following a bombshell report by his predecessor whic...
Turkish drone kills two PKK-affiliated fighters in Iraq: Kurds
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
Both strikes were carried out in Sinjar district, one of the heartlands of Iraq's non-Muslim Yazidi minority, which endured massacres and sex slavery during the...
Turkish drone kills 3 PKK-affiliated fighters in Iraq: Kurds
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
"A drone from the Turkish army targeted a vehicle" in the region, killing an officer and two combattants from the Yazidi Sinjar Resistance Units, a statement fr...
Pakistani brothers released from Guantanamo and sent home
Feb 24, 2023 (AFP)
Abdul Rabbani, who was born in 1967, is believed to have been one of the oldest inmates at the facility on a US base in Cuba. US officials accused him of workin...
Xinjiang governor cancels controversial UK trip: London
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
Erkin Tuniyaz was due to visit this week, and set to meet with Foreign Office officials in a move that sparked anger among UK lawmakers. But a ministry spokespe...
EU under fire over plans to meet Xinjiang governor
Feb 10, 2023 (AFP)
Erkin Tuniyaz, who is sanctioned by the United States over Xinjiang's treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority, is expected to travel to Europe later this month....
Kurdish militants halt 'operations' after Turkey quake
Feb 10, 2023 (AFP)
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and its Western allies for waging a brutal insurgency that has clai...
UK govt defends potential talks with Xinjiang governor
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
Responding to an urgent question asked in parliament, Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty told angry MPs that the government had not invited Erkin Tuniyaz to t...
Pakistan divided on legacy of military ruler Musharraf
Feb 05, 2023 (AFP)
The nation's most recent military leader governed for nearly a decade after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999. His rule was marred by repeated allegatio...
Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan's last military ruler
Feb 05, 2023 (AFP)
Known as a whisky-tippling moderate, the four-star general seized power in 1999 in a bloodless coup before aligning with Washington during its military interven...
Canada moves to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
The move builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its northwestern Xinjiang terr...
China's Xi condemns Pakistan mosque attack
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
The suicide blast on Monday in Peshawar struck inside a police compound as hundreds of officers gathered for afternoon prayers. The city's police chief said Tue...
Turkish base in northern Iraq hit by rocket fire: Kurds
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
As with similar attacks in the past, there was no immediate claim of responsibility. "Eight rockets were fired at Zilkan military base," in Nineveh province jus...
Turkmenistan president named Army General
Jan 27, 2023 (AFP)
The oil and gas rich former Soviet republic has been ruled for more than 16 years by Berdymukhamedov, 41, and his father Gurbanguly who stood down in 2022 and h...
Uyghur NGO loses forced labour claims case against UK
Jan 20, 2023 (AFP)
The German-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) alleged that the UK government and police had blocked a criminal probe into the sale of goods sourced from Xinjiang...
Library thrives in Pakistan's 'wild west' gun market town
Jan 16, 2023 (AFP)
"It's my hobby, my favourite hobby, so sometimes I sneak off," the 28-year-old told AFP after showing off his inventory of vintage rifles, forged assault weapon...
Swedish PM condemns mock hanging of Erdogan effigy
Jan 13, 2023 (AFP)
The staging of a "type of mock execution of a foreign democratically-elected leader" was "extremely serious", Ulf Kristersson told broadcaster TV4. Turkey summo...
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