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Turkey lashes out at Sweden over Kurdish tweet
Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)
The diplomatic spat threatened to set back Sweden's efforts to break down NATO member Turkey's resistance to its bid to join the Western defence alliance in res...
Suicide blast near Afghan ministry, more than 20 casualties
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
The Taliban claim to have improved security since storming back to power in 2021 but there have been scores of bomb blasts and attacks, many claimed by the loca...
Iraqi Kurds bury activist killed in Paris attack
Jan 05, 2023 (AFP)
Members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been waging a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, were among the dozens at the procession in Sulaim...
16 arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan after video of teen girl's assault
Dec 31, 2022 (AFP)
The incident took place in the suburbs of Sulaimaniyah, the Kurdistan region's second city, where footage shared online showed dozens of young men and teenage b...
All hostages freed and captors killed as Pakistan police siege ends
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
The hostage takers, who were suspected of being members of various militant groups including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), overpowered their jailers and...
'Butcher of Gujarat', 'epicentre of terrorism': India, Pakistan trade barbs
Dec 16, 2022 (AFP)
The rivals have strained political ties, especially over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which was split between the two during Partition. Since 1947, they hav...
UK launches independent probe into Afghan war crimes claims
Dec 15, 2022 (AFP)
Commandos in the elite Special Air Service (SAS) corps have been accused of killing dozens of Afghans in suspicious circumstances, but the military chain of com...
China protests shine light on limits of Uyghur solidarity
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
On November 24, 10 people died in the apartment block blaze in Urumqi, the northwestern region's capital, with many around China blaming a grinding Covid lockdo...
Beijing 'shocked' by attack on Afghan hotel hosting Chinese visitors
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
The Taliban claim to have improved security since storming back to power in August last year but there have been scores of bomb blasts and attacks, many like th...
China says 'shocked' at Kabul attack, firmly opposes all terrorism
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
"This terror attack is abominable and China is deeply shocked. We firmly oppose all forms of terrorism... We express our grief for the Afghan military police wh...
UN rights chief vows to keep focus on Xinjiang abuses
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
Volker Turk, who took over as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in October, said the report released by Michelle Bachelet on August 31 was "very importa...
Turkey hails Swedish extradition of PKK militant, wants more
Dec 05, 2022 (AFP)
Ankara has demanded that both Sweden and neighbouring Finland take tougher stances on Kurdish groups it deems "terrorists" in exchange for backing their NATO bi...
Turkey jails outlawed PKK member extradited from Sweden
Dec 03, 2022 (AFP)
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Finland and Sweden in May dropped decades of military non-alignment and sought to join NATO. That requires a consensus within the ...
Civilian killed in Iraq strike blamed on Turkey
Dec 02, 2022 (AFP)
The pair were working on their land near the village of Mawat when they were killed in a bombardment "likely carried out by Turkey", the town's mayor Kamaran Ha...
'It's not over': Iranian Kurds in Iraq in Tehran's crosshairs
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
"These are the regime's missiles," said Karim Farkhapour, a leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), with a revolver strapped to his traditio...
US defense chief urges Turkey not to launch Syria op
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
Turkey has carried out air strikes against semi-autonomous Kurdish zones in Syria and Iraq since a deadly Istanbul bombing it blames on Kurdish groups, and has ...
Turkish ground op in Syria would 'jeopardize' anti-IS gains: Pentagon
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
Turkey has carried out air strikes against semi-autonomous Kurdish zones in Syria and Iraq since a deadly Istanbul bombing it blames on Kurdish groups, and has ...
Iran's supreme leader takes Iraqi PM to task over security
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
Ties between the two neighbours have lately been strained by tensions over Iran carrying out cross-border strikes against exiled Kurdish opposition groups it ac...
Who are the Iranian-Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq?
Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)
In the wake of demonstrations sparked by the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini -- an Iranian woman of Kurdish origin -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary ...
Uyghur man's agony after five relatives died in Urumqi fire
Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)
Ten people were killed and nine injured when the blaze ripped through a residential building in the regional capital Urumqi on Thursday night, with many blaming...
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