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New fighting over Karabakh despite ceasefire
Oct 19, 2020 (AFP)
The truce, backed by international mediators to put a stop to three weeks of fighting that has left hundreds dead, was supposed to have come into force at midni...
Pro-Iran protesters torch Kurd party offices in Baghdad
Oct 17, 2020 (AFP)
Hundreds of Hashed demonstrators swept past a security detail and stormed into the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which runs the Kurdish auton...
Missile strikes on Azerbaijan cities after separatist capital shelled
Oct 17, 2020 (AFP)
The strike, which came hours after a shelling attack on the Nagorno-Karabakh capital Stepanakert, marked a new escalation in the three-week conflict between eth...
Trump aide: more Afghan troop cuts in early 2021
Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)
Clarifying the Trump administration's stance after conflicting accounts from the president himself, his advisors and the Pentagon, O'Brien said US troops would ...
French museum halts Genghis Khan show after Chinese pressure
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
The history museum in the western French city of Nantes announced Monday that it was delaying the opening of the exhibition about the legendary founder of the 1...
US strikes target Taliban as fighting rages in Afghanistan; withdrawal still 'conditions-based'
Oct 12, 2020 (AFP)
Heavy fighting erupted on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, after the Taliban attacked several outposts in the area. The US "conduc...
Heavy shelling and civilian casualties dash hopes for Karabakh ceasefire
Oct 11, 2020 (AFP)
The two sides had agreed to pause hostilities to exchange prisoners and the bodies of people killed in two weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh ...
Ceasefire curbs Karabakh fighting as Armenia, Azerbaijan trade accusations
Oct 10, 2020 (AFP)
An AFP journalist in regional capital Stepanakert said some explosions were heard in the distance after the ceasefire came into force at noon, but there was non...
Pakistan bans TikTok over 'immoral content'
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
Chinese-owned TikTok which has become a global sensation with its short video clips has a huge user base among young Pakistanis, with some attracting millions o...
Iraqi Kurds urged to free journalists, activists
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
Sherwan Sherwani, editor-in-chief of monthly magazine Bashur, was arrested at his home in Erbil on Wednesday without a warrant by "police officers, four of whom...
NATO chief says allies will leave Afghanistan together
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
Trump, trailing in polls ahead of the November 3 presidential election, made his surprise announcement on Twitter on Wednesday, dramatically speeding up the tim...
Trump says wants US troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
"We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!" Trump wrote on Twitter. In a February 29 agreem...
Half Karabakh population displaced as mediators set for Geneva talks
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged an end to a "huge tragedy" in an interview with state-run television, as new strikes hit Karabakh's main city Stepanakert...
Smerch: Soviet-designed Tornado wreaks fear in Karabakh
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
Stepanakert has been under sustained Azerbaijani bombardment since fighting flared between the two foes late last month, with Baku vowing there can be no compro...
US hopeful for Afghan, Pakistan side agreement
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
The Taliban and Afghan government have opened slow-moving peace talks in Qatar as the United States starts withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan to end its lo...
Nearly 40 nations demand China respect Uighur human rights
Oct 06, 2020 (AFP)
"We call on China to respect human rights, particularly the rights of persons belonging to religious and ethnic minorities, especially in Xinjiang and Tibet," s...
Nearly two decades after US invasion, Afghans fear Taliban return
Oct 06, 2020 (AFP)
The invasion that followed those October 7, 2001 strikes quickly toppled the militants, who had harboured Al-Qaeda, the group behind the September 11 attacks th...
Israel under diplomatic fire over arms to Azerbaijan
Oct 05, 2020 (AFP)
Armenia, a country long-seen as close to Israel's nemesis Iran, only opened an embassy in Tel Aviv on September 17, but Yerevan recalled its ambassador barely t...
NATO chief tells Turkey to help calm Karabakh conflict
Oct 05, 2020 (AFP)
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's comments in Ankara came as fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian separatist forces entered its second week with at leas...
'Heavy fighting' over Karabakh amid Azerbaijan offensive: Armenia
Oct 03, 2020 (AFP)
Baku and Yerevan have for decades been locked in a simmering conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian region of Azerbaijan which broke away from B...
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