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Top Kurdish official killed in Turkish operation in Iraq: Erdogan
Jun 06, 2021 (AFP)
Erdogan accuses the PKK of using the mountainous area in Iraq's north as a springboard for its insurgency against the Turkish state. The Turkish president said ...
Turkish strike kills 3 civilians at Iraq refugee camp: Kurdish MP
Jun 05, 2021 (AFP)
Erdogan accuses Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of using the mountainous area in Iraq's north as a springboard for its insurgency against the Tu...
'Uyghur Tribunal' to convene over abuses as China fumes
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
The "Uyghur Tribunal" says its nine jurors will hear first-hand testimony of alleged crimes in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang, including forced ste...
'Uyghur Tribunal' hears allegations of rampant China abuses
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
Witnesses described squalid conditions and brutality in camps in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang, with one claiming a woman had died after undergoin...
U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan at least 30% complete, CENTCOM says
Jun 01, 2021 (UPI)
According to the release, as of 10 a.m. Monday, the United States has officially handed over six facilities to the Afghan Ministry of Defense, and anticipates a...
US to hand Bagram base to Afghan forces in 20 days, says official
Jun 01, 2021 (AFP)
The vast base, built by the Soviets in the 1980s, is the biggest military facility used by US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, with tens of thousands of troops s...
Britain to accelerate relocation for Afghan staff
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Under Britain's relocation scheme for former and current Afghan staff, many of whom served as translators, over 1,300 workers and their families have been broug...
Troop withdrawal from Afghanistan 'ahead of schedule,' Austin says
May 27, 2021 (UPI)
"I can report to you today that the retrograde is proceeding on pace, indeed slightly ahead of it," Austin told the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense...
U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearly one-quarter complete
May 26, 2021 (UPI)
Citing U.S. Central Command, a Defense Department statement on Tuesday called the withdrawal "somewhere between 16% and 25% complete," adding that C-17 cargo pl...
Australia to close embassy in Afghanistan over security fears
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the facility would close as an "interim measure" on May 28 -- in just three days -- "in light of the imminent inte...
US pullout from Afghanistan at least 16% complete: Pentagon
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
The US military has a deadline of September to remove the 2,500 troops, 16,000 civilian contractors and hundreds of tons of equipment that were inside Afghanist...
Iraq court strips MPs of immunity, opens way for graft trials
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
Lawmakers had long enjoyed immunity preventing their arrest or prosecution without agreement from parliament -- a rule that allowed parties to make deals to del...
Afghan war displaced settle in the ruins of a lost city
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
The astonishing ochre clay complex juts from the cliffs along the Helmand River, threatened by decay and encroaching urban sprawl as well as the makeshift const...
NATO says to provide funding for Kabul airport after pull-out
May 21, 2021 (AFP)
"NATO's future support will have three main pillars. First, we plan to provide advice and capacity support to Afghan security institutions, as well as continued...
Keeping Kabul airport open -- a key test in Afghan withdrawal
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
As he announced the end of America's "forever war" in April, Biden pledged his administration would "determine what a continued US diplomatic presence in Afghan...
Forced sterilisation and Xinjiang's shrinking population
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
In 2019, Sedik -- then aged 50 -- says she begged authorities to spare her from being fitted with the compulsory IUD, as previous attempts resulted in severe pa...
Iranian Kurd dissident sets himself ablaze in Iraq
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
Medics in Arbil treating Mohammad Mahmoudi, 27, said he was in a critical condition. Before setting himself on fire, Mahmoudi was filmed on a video posted on so...
US pullout from Afghanistan at least 13% complete: Pentagon
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
CentCom said that since President Joe Biden ordered the exit in April, it had removed the equivalent of 115 fully loaded C-17 cargo aircraft worth of material f...
Turkey kills top Kurdish commander: Erdogan
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
The Turkish army last month launched a new ground and air offensive against militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party dubbed Operation Claw Lightning...
UN slams Iraqi Kurds for 'intimidating' journalists
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
"Over the last year, journalists, human rights activists and protesters who questioned or criticised actions by the Kurdistan regional authorities have faced in...
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