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Meta blocks access to Muslim news page in India
May 07, 2025 (AFP)
Instagram users in India trying to access posts from the handle @Muslim -- a page with 6.7 million followers -- were met with a message stating: "Account not av...
Turkey warns of 'all-out war' risk in India-Pakistan clash
May 07, 2025 (AFP)
"The attack carried out last night by India runs the risk of an all-out war," said a foreign ministry statement after India's deadly missile strikes. "We condem...
UN chief urges 'maximum restraint' in India, Pakistan standoff
May 05, 2025 (AFP)
New Delhi has blamed Islamabad for backing a deadly attack on tourists on the Indian side of the disputed region of Kashmir last month, sparking a series of hea...
Kremlin calls for de-escalation in India-Pakistan tensions
May 05, 2025 (AFP)
New Delhi has blamed Islamabad for the April 22 attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people, sparking a series of heated threats and diplomatic tit-for-tat measure...
India-Pakistan gunfire triggers terror of past conflict
May 04, 2025 (AFP)
And, each night, it brings back afresh the horror for 50-year-old maize farmer Bashir Dar -- the last time the bitter enemies battled across the Line of Control...
PKK claims Iraq attacks on Kurdish security forces
May 01, 2025 (AFP)
The attacks occurred on Monday and Tuesday, targeting peshmerga bases in Dohuk province in the northern autonomous Kurdistan region, which has seen repeated cla...
India closes airspace to Pakistan airplanes
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
New Delhi accuses Islamabad of backing the deadliest attack in years on civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, in which 26 men were killed. Islam...
Threat of India-Pakistan conflict after Kashmir attack
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
New Delhi, which accuses Pakistan of backing the attack, has not yet taken military action. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the Indian army "complete...
Iraq drone attacks wound five Kurdish security personnel
Apr 29, 2025 (AFP)
Authorities blamed a "terrorist group" for the separate attacks in a region that has seen repeated clashes between Turkish forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Wor...
Villagers on India's border with Pakistan fear war
Apr 28, 2025 (AFP)
"All women, children, cattle and most younger men moved back to safe shelters in 1999 and 1971," Hardev said, referring to two of the worst outbreaks of fightin...
India and Pakistan troops exchange fire in contested Kashmir
Apr 28, 2025 (AFP)
There were no reported casualties, and Islamabad did not immediately confirm the gunfire from Pakistan. India has accused Pakistan of supporting "cross-border t...
India Kashmir crackdown sparks anger as Pakistan tensions escalate
Apr 28, 2025 (AFP)
New Delhi has accused Pakistan of supporting "cross-border terrorism" after gunmen killed 26 people on April 22, the worst attack on civilians in contested Musl...
India and Pakistan troops exchange fire in Kashmir
Apr 27, 2025 (AFP)
India has accused Pakistan of supporting "cross-border terrorism" after gunmen killed 26 people in the worst attack on civilians in contested Muslim-majority Ka...
India and Pakistan urged to have 'maximum restraint' after Kashmir attack
Apr 25, 2025 (AFP)
Relations have plunged to their lowest level in years, with India accusing Pakistan of supporting "cross-border terrorism" after gunmen carried out the worst at...
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir attack: what we know
Apr 24, 2025 (AFP)
It was the deadliest attack on civilians in the disputed Himalayan territory in a quarter of a century. India accuses Pakistan of being behind Tuesday's attack ...
India and Pakistan: A history of division and war
Apr 24, 2025 (AFP)
New Delhi regularly blames Islamabad for backing gunmen in Kashmir, who have fought an insurgency against Indian forces since 1989. Islamabad denies it backs th...
India vows 'loud and clear' response to Kashmir attack
Apr 23, 2025 (AFP)
"Those responsible and behind such an act will very soon hear our response, loud and clear," Rajnath Singh said in a speech in New Delhi, a day after gunmen kil...
India hunts gunmen who killed 26 in Kashmir tourist hotspot
Apr 23, 2025 (AFP)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who cut short a state visit to Saudi Arabia, decried the "heinous act" and pledged that the attackers "will be brought to justice"...
BASF exits Xinjiang ventures after Uyghur abuse reports
Apr 22, 2025 (AFP)
BASF said in a statement it had completed the sale of its shares in Markor Chemical Manufacturing and Markor Meiou Chemical to the Singaporean group Verde Chemi...
Thai ministers travel to Xinjiang to visit deported Uyghurs
Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)
Thailand last month sent at least 40 Uyghurs back after they had spent years in Thai detention facilities after fleeing China more than a decade ago. The move s...
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