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Turkey, Iran summon ambassadors in Iraq row
Feb 28, 2021 (AFP)
Iran and Turkey are rivals in several parts of the Middle East and Central Asia but both have carried out operations against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq....
China slams Dutch motion declaring genocide in Xinjiang
Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)
The Dutch parliament passed the motion on Thursday that "genocide is under way in China against the Uighur minority," joining countries including Canada and the...
Pakistan, India pledge to end skirmishes along Kashmir frontier
Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)
The two nations regularly exchange artillery and machine-gun fire along the ceasefire line known as the Line of Control (LoC) that has separated the countries f...
China targets Uighurs with more prosecutions, longer prison terms: HRW
Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)
These criminal convictions are in addition to the detention of an estimated one million Uighurs and other mainly Muslim minorities in "political education" camp...
France slams 'institutional repression' of China's Uighurs
Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking by video link at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Le Drian said that witness accounts and documents from the Chinese region of Xinjiang pointed t...
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan down, targeted killings up, UN says
Feb 23, 2021 (UPI)
According to the annual Afghanistan Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict Annual Report, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN ...
Xinjiang 'shining example' of China's rights progress: minister
Feb 22, 2021 (AFP)
Rights groups believe at least one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated in camps in the northwest Xinjiang region, where Ch...
Turkey probes pro-Kurdish MP over 'Iraq visit'
Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)
Lawmaker Dirayet Dilan Tasdemir "is under investigation for belonging to a terrorist organisation," Ankara prosecutors said, hours after the interior minister a...
Taliban 'clearly' behind violence in Afghanistan: US
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Army Central Command (Centcom), made the remark on a regional tour, as President Joe Biden reviews a military withdrawa...
NATO to increase presence in Iraq, delay decision on Afghanistan
Feb 18, 2021 (UPI)
On Thursday, defense ministers wrapped a two-day teleconference regarding NATO's missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, which a NATO press statement described as "ke...
NATO puts holds on Afghanistan decision, expands in Iraq
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
While defence ministers held off on making that call at a two-day virtual conference, they did decide to expand a NATO training mission in Iraq from 500 to "aro...
NATO holds post-Trump talks as Afghanistan decision looms
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
Key on the agenda at the two-day virtual conference is the future of NATO's 9,600-strong support mission in Afghanistan after Trump sidelined allies and struck ...
NATO eyes post-Trump reset as Afghanistan call looms
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
Key on the agenda at the two-day virtual conference is the future of NATO's 9,600-strong support mission in Afghanistan after Trump sidelined allies and struck ...
Canada weighs calling China's Uighur treatment a genocide
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
This comes after Donald Trump's outgoing administration last month said Beijing's incarceration of mostly Muslim minorities in its far western Xinjiang region a...
Iraq's Kurdish region jails journalists, activists over protests
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
The five men were arrested in October following protests over delayed salaries for public school teachers, defence lawyer Aso Hashem told AFP. They were charged...
NATO will not leave Afghanistan before 'time is right'
Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)
The ministers of the 30 NATO member states will on Wednesday and Thursday hold their highest-level talks since US President Joe Biden took office vowing to work...
Turkey accuses US of siding with 'terrorists' in Iraq
Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)
Turkey had accused the United States of supporting "terrorists" after Washington declined to immediately back Ankara's claim that Kurdish militants had executed...
Kurdish rebels executed 13 Turks in north Iraq: Ankara
Feb 14, 2021 (AFP)
The alleged killings threaten to heighten tensions between Ankara and Baghdad, as well as with Washington, which backs groups tied to the PKK in Syria. Ankara h...
Germany wants troops to stay on in Afghanistan
Feb 13, 2021 (AFP)
Peace negotiations between the government and the Taliban "will not be concluded before the end of March," when Germany's annual mandate is due to expire, he to...
Taliban warn NATO to push ahead with troop withdrawal in Afghanistan
Feb 13, 2021 (AFP)
Defence ministers from the Washington-backed allies are to meet next week to discuss whether NATO's 10,000-strong mission -- mostly carrying out support roles -...
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