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Eight civilians killed in Afghanistan air strike: officials
Feb 15, 2020 (AFP)
The incident took place in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Friday when a vehicle carrying civilians was struck, according to Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman...
Kazakh violence makes Chinese Muslim minority ponder future
Feb 15, 2020 (AFP)
Violence had broken out among local Kazakhs and a group of ethnic Chinese Muslims called Dungans, who number more than 150,000 across Central Asia. Daurov, a Du...
U.S. soldier dies at Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield
Feb 13, 2020 (UPI)
Spc. Branden Tyme Kimball, 21, died Wednesday at Bagram Airfield, a U.S. base north of the capital Kabul, the Pentagon said in a statement without providing fur...
Exiled Uighurs fear spread of coronavirus in China camps
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
So far, official figures released by Chinese state media give no major cause for concern over the COVID-19 outbreak in the northeastern region of Xinjiang that ...
NATO chief welcomes Afghan peace progress
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reported "notable progress" in negotiations between Washington and the Taliban, which have now lasted over a year. The prospective...
More than 2,000 people killed in Afghan reconstruction missions since 2002
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
The "Human Cost" report came as at least five people, including civilians, were killed in a blast in the first major attack in the capital city Kabul in months....
Pakistan bucks trend and resumes flights to virus-hit China
Feb 03, 2020 (AFP)
The move comes as dozens of global airlines are halting flight services with China, and governments are increasingly barring entry to anyone who has recently vi...
Pompeo pushes against China, Russia in visit to 'Stans'
Feb 02, 2020 (AFP)
Pompeo's visit to the Central Asian country of 33 million will see him hold talks Monday with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who has embarked on ambitious reform...
Pentagon releases names of Airmen killed in Afghanistan jet crash
Jan 29, 2020 (UPI)
Lt. Col. Paul K. Voss, 46, of Yigo, Guam, and Capt. Ryan S. Phaneuf, 30, of Hudson, N.H., died in the crash of a Bombardier E-11A aircraft in Ghazni Province, A...
US bombing of Afghanistan hits 10-year high
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
In 2019 alone, the US dropped 7,423 separate munitions on targets in Afghanistan, where the US has been enmeshed in fighting several militant groups since it in...
UN says six civilians killed in Afghanistan airstrike
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The UN's findings come days after reports first surfaced that several civilians had been killed in an airstrike in Boka village in northern Balkh province. "UN ...
US military jet crashes in Taliban territory in Afghanistan
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
Afghanistan US Forces spokesman Colonel Sonny Leggett confirmed in a statement that the aircraft was a US Bombardier E-11A, a type of jet used as a military air...
Chinese Uighurs in Saudi face impossible choice
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
The Chinese mission in Saudi Arabia stopped renewing passports for the ethnic Muslim minority more than two years ago, in what campaigners call a pressure tacti...
Afghan drought forces shepherds into desperate measures
Jan 23, 2020 (AFP)
Rather than let more of the prized creatures die a slow death on the dry hillsides of Balkh province in the north, he made the decision to slaughter most of the...
Pakistan court annuls Musharaff's death sentence
Jan 13, 2020 (AFP)
The original ruling had marked the first time a former leader of the armed forces had faced such a sentence for treason in Pakistan, where the military maintain...
Iraq PM tells Kurdish leaders he does not seek 'hostility' with US
Jan 11, 2020 (AFP)
Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi travelled to Arbil with a delegation of top ministers and his intelligence chief. The trip came at a time of political turmoil f...
Climate change threatens Afghanistan's crumbling heritage
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Nestled in the heart of the Hindu Kush mountains, the Bamiyan valley's picturesque cliffs -- where centuries-old Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban in...
US strike kills Taliban splinter commander in Herat: officials
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
The commander, named as Mullah Nangyalay, was killed in Shindand district, close to the border with Iran, said Herat provincial governor's spokesman Jailani Far...
Hanukkah candles burn in Iraqi Kurdistan
Jan 01, 2020 (AFP)
The country has been nearly emptied of its Jewish community amid regional conflicts and violence within its borders, but this year, the town of Al-Qosh hosted i...
China took their parents: the Uighur refugee children of Turkey
Dec 31, 2019 (AFP)
But for several, it has also become an impromptu orphanage. Having fled a worsening crackdown on Uighur Muslims in northwest China, some of their parents though...
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