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US Afghanistan pullout proceeding steadily: Pentagon
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
As of Monday, the United States had "retrograded" the equivalent of enough gear to fill 104 C-17 Globemasters, the military's massive transport, Centcom said in...
China demands cancellation of UN meeting on Uyghurs
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
At least one million Uyghurs and people from other mostly Muslim groups have been held in camps in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, according to rights gro...
China slams New Zealand parliament's Uyghur concerns
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing expressed anger after New Zealand's parliament passed a watered-down motion Wednesday expressing "grave concern" at human rights abuses involving the Uy...
US sends more reinforcements for Afghan pullout: Pentagon
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
"Less than one week in, the drawdown is going according to plan," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters. Pentagon Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley said...
US warplanes help Afghan forces fend off Taliban offensive
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
Fierce fighting has erupted in southern Helmand province since the weekend, when the US military formally began withdrawing its remaining troops from Afghanista...
New Zealand declines to call China's Uyghur treatment genocide
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
Parliament unanimously passed a motion expressing "grave concern" at human rights abuses in Xinjiang province, but only after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's ru...
U.S. moved 60 planeloads of equipment out of Afghanistan, Pentagon says
May 04, 2021 (UPI)
Since President Joe Biden announced plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, Pentagon leaders estimate that U.S. Central Command has completed between 2% and 6% of i...
US withdrawal from Afghanistan 2-6% complete: military
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
US Central Command said 1,300 pieces of equipment had been sent for destruction and one facility in the southern province of Helmand had been transfered to the ...
Iraqi Kurdistan upholds prison sentences for activists, journalists
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
Authorities in the autonomous region said the five men "had direct relations with a number of foreign entities and the PKK", a Kurdish governmental source told ...
Pentagon downplays newest Afghanistan clashes
May 03, 2021 (AFP)
"What we've seen are some small harassing attacks over the course of the weekend that have not had any significant impact, certainly not on our people or on our...
Activists, journalists face arrest and 'flawed' trials in Iraqi Kurdistan
May 01, 2021 (AFP)
Saed, 36, is one of a growing number of activists and journalists in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region subject to arbitrary arrest and unfair trials, ...
Timeline: US intervention in Afghanistan
May 01, 2021 (AFP)
As the US formally begins withdrawing its troops from the country Saturday, bringing its longest war nearer to an end, a timeline of the last two decades: - 'Wa...
Tajik and Kyrgyz clashes: Five things to know
Apr 30, 2021 (AFP)
A ceasefire has been signed and the leaderships of both countries say they are committed to a peaceful solution to issues at their contested border. But the cla...
NATO says Afghanistan withdrawal has begun
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
Members of the US-backed alliance agreed this month to wrap up their 9,600-strong mission in Afghanistan after Biden made the call to end Washington's longest w...
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan armies exchange fire on disputed border
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
Kyrgyzstan's health ministry said in a statement that there were 17 casualties in the clashes, including "one fatality". Tajikistan's security committee said tw...
Dozens of pro-PKK protesters detained in Iraqi Kurdistan: party
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
"Fifty-four protesters were arrested during a rally in Sulaimaniyah" on Sunday by Kurdish security forces, in the south of the autonomous northern Iraqi region,...
Top US general: hard to predict Afghan fate after pullout
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
"Tough situation, no good answers to any of it," Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley told the Sedona Forum when asked about the future of Afghanistan. He ...
US sees genocides against Uyghurs and Armenians but consistency elusive
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
This year, in a matter of months, the United States has unreservedly made two such declarations -- first accusing China of genocide against the Uyghurs and othe...
19 jailed in Kazakhstan over clashes with Chinese-speaking minority
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
The clashes in the south of the oil-rich country in February 2020 saw Kazakhs attack villages inhabited by a Chinese-speaking minority known locally as Dungans....
Canadian couple witnesses to China's 'methodical' repression of Uyghurs
Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)
"We saw these things starting to happen and we knew this is not going anywhere good," Andrea Dyck said. "We started to see more and more restrictions. Every wee...
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