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As social unrest grows, Kurdish Iraq goes after media
Aug 23, 2020 (AFP)
For decades, Iraqis fleeing pressure by paramilitary groups, tribes and powerful politicians in the more conservative south sought safe haven in the Kurdish reg...
Uzbekistan proposes new rules on protests
Aug 19, 2020 (AFP)
While the Central Asian country''s constitution formally permits public demonstrations, citizens have hardly ever been allowed to protest freely during the Cent...
PKK says shot down Turkish helicopter in Iraq
Aug 17, 2020 (AFP)
Last Tuesday's Turkish drone strike had also killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers, sparking renewed tensions with Baghdad. In a statement Monday, the PKK said...
Turkish strikes kill three Kurds in Iraq: mayor
Aug 14, 2020 (AFP)
Turkey launched a cross-border ground and air operation in mid-June against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels in the mountainous terrain of northern Iraq. "...
Pentagon aims for fewer than 5,000 US troops in Afghanistan by November
Aug 11, 2020 (AFP)
"Over the next four months, the United States will continue to drawdown its force levels in Afghanistan based on conditions in-country," the Department of Defen...
Serbia mends fences with Azerbaijan after arms sales spat
Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)
The weapons sale was sensitive as a long-running Azerbaijan-Armenia border conflict recently escalated into deadly clashes. In a phone call with his Azerbaijani...
Pakistan demands Kashmir action while ignoring China's Uighurs
Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)
Prime Minister Imran Khan has presented himself as a defender of Muslims worldwide and routinely speaks out on the disputed Kashmir region, even comparing India...
US slaps sanctions on Chinese paramilitary body in Xinjiang
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which runs its own settlements, universities and media in the region geared at China's Han majority, will have a...
New Zealand military slammed over 'murky' Afghan raid claims
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
The inquiry, co-chaired by former prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, found no misconduct by elite SAS troops during the 2010 raid, which was carried out with US ai...
Yazidi children freed from IS haunted by health crisis: Amnesty
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
In a new report based on dozens of interviews in northern Iraq, the rights group found that 1,992 children who faced torture, forced conscription, rape and othe...
France seeks UN-led mission on China's Uighur treatment
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The proposal by Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian comes as tensions rise between France and China after Paris intensified its expression of public concern ove...
In Iraq's Kurdish capital, all's fair in love and walls
Jul 26, 2020 (AFP)
The confessions are scrawled in bright reds and blues, in Arabic and Kurdish, bringing life to otherwise bland alleyways, quiet cul-de-sacs and abandoned homes....
Fears for Uighur culture as scholars vanish in China crackdown
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
Aierken Yibulayin's publishing firm -- one of the biggest in the region -- translated thousands of books into Uighur before he was detained in October 2018. Ark...
Eight civilians killed in Afghan strike on freed Taliban fighter
Jul 23, 2020 (AFP)
The strike in the western province of Herat on Wednesday drew condemnation from a top US diplomat and underscores the worsening violence in Afghanistan's war ev...
Xinjiang chief shrugs off US sanctions; France slams imprisonment of Uighurs
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party chief in Xinjiang, was among several officials hit with a freeze on US assets and visa bans earlier this month. The group was ...
Arbil denies handing Syria Kurd official's niece to Turkey
Jul 20, 2020 (AFP)
The interior ministry in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region dismissed the accusation from the family of Dalia Mahmoud Muslim, echoing an account giv...
US sanctions 11 Chinese firms over Uighur rights violations
Jul 20, 2020 (AFP)
Washington, together with other western nations and rights groups, has accused Beijing of interning at least a million Muslims from the Uighur ethnic group in t...
Turkey detains niece of Syrian Kurdish official: family
Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)
Dalia Mahmoud Muslim is a niece of Saleh Muslim, who is close to Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration. She was "handed over to the Turkish authorities...
New virus cases spark alarm in China's Xinjiang
Jul 17, 2020 (AFP)
So far, at least five cases linked to Urumqi have been discovered, including a man who was confirmed positive after he travelled from the city to the eastern pr...
Two Azerbaijani officers, five soldiers killed in new Armenia clashes
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
Deputy Defence Minister Karim Valiyev told media, including news agency APA and news website report.az, that Major General Polad Gashimov, Colonel Ilgar Mirzoye...
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