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China's Xinjiang crackdown under scrutiny ahead of UN rights chief visit
May 22, 2022 (AFP)
The highly scrutinised six-day trip by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet will begin Monday, with stops in the cities of Urumqi and Kashgar in Xinjiang, as wel...
'Criminal leader' killed in Tajikistan's east after clashes: police
May 22, 2022 (AFP)
Mamadbokir Mamadbokirov was killed "as a result of internal clashes of criminal groups", according to an interior ministry statement carried by the state inform...
Turkey's Erdogan conditions support for Nordic nations' NATO bids
May 21, 2022 (AFP)
Turkey has long accused Nordic countries, in particular Sweden which has a strong Turkish immigrant community, of harbouring outlawed Kurdish militants as well ...
Pakistan FM to visit China as financial crisis bites
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
Hard-up Pakistan is buckling under crippling debt, shrinking foreign currency reserves and soaring inflation. On Friday the national currency hit another histor...
Tajikistan detains 114 over clashes in troubled region
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
Nine people, eight of whom the government described as "militants", and one officer were killed Wednesday following the worst violence in the remote Gorno-Badak...
NATO addressing Turkey's 'concerns' over Nordic bids: Stoltenberg
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
"Of course, we are addressing the concerns that Turkey has expressed" to find "an agreement on how to move forward", Stoltenberg told a press conference in Cope...
China database reveals the thousands detained in Xinjiang
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
Researchers estimate over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in a secretive network of detention centres and prisons, ostensi...
'Conflict, destruction' prevent return to Iraq's Yazidi heartland: NGO
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
Five years after the defeat of the Islamic State group, which committed massacres against the Yazidis and used their women as sex slaves, the town's Yazidi, Mus...
Nine dead, 24 wounded in clashes in restive Tajikistan region
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
The ministry said members of "organised criminal groups" armed with weapons and Molotov cocktails attacked security officials in the eastern region of Gorno-Bad...
UN rights chief to visit China 'shortly'
May 17, 2022 (AFP)
After years of requesting "meaningful and unfettered" access to China's far-western Xinjiang region, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle ...
Turkey accuses Sweden, Finland of not extraditing 'terrorists'
May 16, 2022 (AFP)
The two countries have officially announced their intention to apply after Russia's invasion of Ukraine but Ankara has threatened to block expansion. Any member...
Uyghurs in Turkey urge UN rights chief to probe China 're-education camps'
May 10, 2022 (AFP)
Turkey's 50,000-strong Uyghur community have staged daily protests outside the Chinese consulate in Istanbul over the past few years, holding pictures of their ...
10,000 fled northern Iraq fighting: Kurdish official
May 05, 2022 (AFP)
The latest figure is more than double the 4,000 which an official from the region reported on Tuesday had arrived. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking non-Arab, ...
Pakistan separatist group warns China of more deadly attacks
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
The Baloch Liberation Army -- one of several groups fighting for independence in Pakistan's biggest province -- claimed responsibility for Tuesday's blast, sayi...
Chinese nationals among four killed by woman suicide bomber in Pakistan
Apr 26, 2022 (AFP)
The Baloch Liberation Army -- one of several groups fighting for independence in Pakistan's biggest province -- claimed responsibility, saying it was their firs...
Taliban order TikTok, PUBG ban in entertainment crackdown
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
The phone apps are popular among Afghans, who have been left with few outlets for entertainment since the hardline Islamists returned to power last year and ban...
Turkey calls in Iraq envoy to defend new offensive
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
Iraq's charge d'affaires was called in a day after officials in Baghdad denied Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's claim that they backed the offensive. Tu...
Erdogan says Iraq backs Turkey's push against Kurdish rebels
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
The Turkish leader's comments came a day after Iraq summoned Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad to lodge a formal protest against Erdogan's latest military campaign...
Iraq summons Turkey envoy in protest at Kurdistan offensive
Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)
Turkey on Monday said it has launched an air and ground offensive against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Iraq handed...
Turkey launches new offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq
Apr 18, 2022 (AFP)
Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said commando units, unmanned aerial vehicles and attack helicopters were pounding Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in three ...
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