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Minister seeks to distance Sweden from Kurdish groups
Nov 05, 2022 (AFP)
"I think it is important that there is a distance to this organisation from the Swedish side", Tobias Billstrom told broadcaster Sveriges Radio after he was ask...
Turkey warns Finland, Sweden must 'take steps' before NATO approval
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
Ankara has accused the two Nordic nations of providing a safe haven for outlawed Kurdish militants it deems "terrorists" and held back on ratifying their NATO m...
Turkish strike kills at least one PKK fighter in Iraq
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
"A Turkish drone targeted a vehicle belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Al-Nasr suburb" of Sinjar, killing one fighter and injuring two other...
50 countries at UN condemn Xinjiang rights abuses
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
"We are gravely concerned about the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China, especially the ongoing human rights violations of Uyghurs and othe...
Forgotten Uyghurs locked up in Thailand face 'hell on earth'
Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)
China has been accused of grave human rights abuses in Xinjiang against the Uyghurs dating back to at least the 1990s, with the United States branding Beijing's...
Pakistan summons US envoy over Biden 'most dangerous nation' remark
Oct 15, 2022 (AFP)
Biden made the apparently off-the-cuff remark late Thursday while talking about United States foreign policy during a private Democratic Party fundraiser in Cal...
Malala visits women at flood camps in Pakistan
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
Catastrophic flooding this summer put one-third of Pakistan under water, displaced eight million people, and caused at least an estimated $28 billion in damage....
Malala visits Pakistan on 10th anniversary of Taliban shooting
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
Her visit -- only the second since she was flown to Britain for life-saving treatment -- comes as thousands of people protested in her home town, where the same...
Iraqi Kurdistan lawmakers delay polls and extend term
Oct 09, 2022 (AFP)
Legislative elections in Kurdistan had been due this month, four years after the last vote. Amid disagreements between its two major parties, lawmakers will now...
One dead, four wounded in Iraqi Kurdistan bombing
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
"An explosive device planted in a car detonated, leading to the death of the driver and the injury of... two women and two children," a statement said, without ...
Ukraine changes mind on UN rights council vote on Xinjiang
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
Western nations suffered a heavy defeat at the UN top rights body on Thursday when they failed to get enough votes to pass a first-ever attempted resolution tar...
UN Human Rights Council rejects holding Xinjiang debate
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
The United States and its allies last month presented the first-ever draft decision to the UN's top rights body targeting China, seeking a bare minimum of holdi...
Iranian Kurd exiles in Iraq under fire as protests rage
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
Their target is the long-exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition, installed in Iraq under Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran in the 1980s. Tehran regards these a...
Study eyes US cooperation with Pakistan amid China rise
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
The group released its findings during a visit to Washington by the head of Pakistan's powerful military, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, a week after a trip by the ...
Exiled for decades, Iranian Kurds in Iraq come under fresh fire
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
"We left in an ambulance towards the affected sites," said the 22-year-old nurse, who works at a hospital in a refugee neighbourhood of the Iraqi city of Koysin...
US says citizen killed in Iran strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
Iran's clerical state on Thursday carried out cross-border strikes, with 13 reported dead, amid unrest at home sparked by the death in custody of an Iranian Kur...
Chinese national shot dead in targeted attack in Pakistan: police
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Chinese nationals and interests have regularly been targeted by separatist militants in the southwestern province of Balochistan, where Beijing is involved in l...
Seven dead in Iran strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan: ministry
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Strikes blamed on Iran have hit districts of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan repeatedly in recent days as Tehran has ramped up its domestic crackdown against protest...
Blinken defends Pakistan arms sales against Indian criticism
Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)
Blinken met in the US capital with India's foreign minister a day after separate talks with his counterpart from Pakistan. The US-Pakistan alliance, born out of...
China steps up offensive at UN to tell Xinjiang 'truth'
Sep 22, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing has made no secret of its displeasure with a United Nations report published last month, which warned of possible crimes against humanity in the far-wes...
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