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Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to 'immediate ceasefire' in Qatar talks
Oct 19, 2025 (AFP)
For more than a week, the South Asian neighbours have engaged in bloody border clashes -- their worst conflict since the return of the Taliban government in 202...
Pakistan-Afghan border crossings closed after heavy clashes
Oct 12, 2025 (AFP)
Neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan have had frosty relations since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021. Islamabad accuses authorities there of har...
China's President Xi makes rare visit to Xinjiang
Sep 23, 2025 (AFP)
The vast territory borders several countries, including Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Xi arrived in the regional capital Urumqi to attend celebrations m...
Taliban rejects Trump's attempt to regain control of Bagram Air Base
Sep 22, 2025 (UPI)
The United States left the country in a hasty exit that was initiated under the first Trump administration and completed under the Biden administration, which s...
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact
Sep 18, 2025 (UPI)
The agreement was signed during Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif's visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. "This agreement, which ref...
Rights advocates demand UN press China on abuses in Xinjiang
Sep 09, 2025 (AFP)
Members of China's Uyghur minority joined NGOs on the sidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to urge UN rights chief Volker Turk to step...
Decorated Australian soldier loses defamation court challenge
Sep 04, 2025 (AFP)
Former SAS commando Ben Roberts-Smith has been fighting to salvage his tattered reputation since 2018, when papers unearthed allegations he took part in the mur...
UN refugee chief urges Pakistan to pause Afghan expulsions after quake
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
Thousands of Afghans who were registered as refugees have surged over the border from Pakistan in recent days, with returns escalating despite the weekend's dea...
Court sentences Iraqi Kurd opposition leader to five months jail
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
The businessman-turned-politician heads the New Generation party, which holds 15 of the 100 seats in the northern region's parliament, and nine of 329 seats in ...
Iraqi Kurdistan opposition figure arrested following clashes: official
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
Security forces in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region arrested opposition figure Lahur Sheikh Jangi on Friday after several hours of armed clashes, a securit...
Iraqi Kurdistan opposition figure arrested following deadly clashes: officials
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
Three members of the security forces in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region were killed and 19 wounded during the arrest of an opposition figure on Friday, tw...
Deadly clashes as Iraqi Kurdistan opposition figure arrested
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
Three members of the security forces in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region were killed and 19 wounded during the arrest of an opposition figure on Friday, secur...
Iraqi Kurd court extends detention of opposition leader
Aug 21, 2025 (AFP)
A court in Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday extended the detention of opposition leader Shaswar Abdulwahid following his arrest last week, his party said. Abdulwahid...
Data of thousands more Afghan's who fought with British forces leaked
Aug 21, 2025 (UPI)
Freedom of Information requests lodged by the BBC revealed an additional 48 data breaches, on top of a 2022 leak of an unlocked document containing the names an...
From drought to floods, water extremes drive displacement in Afghanistan
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
Next to small bundles of belongings, Maruf waited for a car to take him and his family away from their village in northern Afghanistan, where drought-ridden lan...
Iraqi Kurdistan gives jailed journalist more prison time: lawyer
Aug 19, 2025 (AFP)
Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region handed down a new prison term on Tuesday to jailed investigative journalist Sherwan Sherwani, his lawyer said,...
Iraqi Kurdish police arrest opposition leader
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
Police in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq said they had arrested the leader of the main opposition party who would appear in court for a hearing ...
Kazakhstan says defence ministry official detained in Poland
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
Kazakhstan's defence ministry said Wednesday that one of its employees had been detained in Poland, which earlier this month said it had detained a foreign nati...
U.S. blacklists Pakistan-based separatist group
Aug 11, 2025 (UPI)
The designations from the State Department come years after it designated the BLA as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2019. The move on Monday also in...
Trump says Armenia, Azerbaijan commit to end fighting 'forever'
Aug 09, 2025 (AFP)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan's long-time President Ilham Aliyev said Trump's mediation should earn him a Nobel Peace Prize -- an award...
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