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Deadly violence mars start of Afghan election season
Jul 28, 2019 (AFP)
Nine people were killed and about two dozen others wounded in an attack targeting the Kabul office of Ghani's running mate, Amrullah Saleh. The violence came on...
Afghan-Taliban talks could happen within two weeks
Jul 27, 2019 (AFP)
The Taliban have so far refused to speak to the government of President Ashraf Ghani, which they see as illegitimate, except for at a recent summit where Ghani ...
Croatian soldier killed in Taliban attack in Kabul
Jul 24, 2019 (AFP)
Croatia has about 100 troops deployed in Afghanistan as part of NATO's US-led Resolute Support mission, where coalition soldiers are helping train and advise lo...
Pakistan's Imran Khan says to meet Taliban in peace push
Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)
Khan spoke in Washington on his first official trip to the United States, where President Donald Trump hosted him at the White House a day earlier. He said he h...
US envoy to return to for Afghan negotiations; Air strike kills 8 civilians
Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)
Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad will leave next Monday for the mission lasting through August 1 "as part of an overall effort to facilitate a peace proc...
Uighur's links to home come with a steep price
Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)
Then aged 33, the ethnic Uighur cameraman made a wrenching choice to flee their homeland and strike out for a better, safer life 12,500 kilometres (7,750 miles)...
China thanks UAE for backing Beijing's Xinjiang policies
Jul 22, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing has come under growing international scrutiny for placing an estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps in the name of co...
Squeezed by sanctions, Iranians seek day jobs in Kurdish Iraq
Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)
Mostly Kurds themselves, they have sought day jobs in construction and other menial labour in Iraq's northern Kurdish region to make up for the deteriorating ec...
As China locks up Muslims in Xinjiang, it opens its doors to tourists
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
The government has rounded up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking minorities into re-education camps in the tightly-control...
Pakistan joins US-led call for Afghan ceasefire, talks
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
Pakistan joined the three powers in talks in Beijing that come as the United States moves closer to an agreement with the Taliban to pull troops from Afghanista...
Iran Guards strike 'terrorists' in Iraqi Kurdistan
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
"Terrorist camps and training centres were attacked from Wednesday," with rockets, drones and artillery, the Guards said in a statement published by their offic...
Afghan women note Taliban shift after Doha talks
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
In a meeting earlier this week in Qatar, the Islamist militants sat down with Afghan representatives and issued a joint statement that called for assuring women...
Ambassadors condemn China's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
UN ambassadors from 22 states -- including Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Japan -- co-signed the text sent to the Human Rights Council presiden...
Afghanistan's Ghani says now is the time for peace
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
The Taliban have steadfastly refused to discuss peace with Ghani, whom they consider a US stooge heading an illegitimate regime. But a series of talks in recent...
Afghan foes meet in bid to secure peace
Jul 07, 2019 (AFP)
Stakes are high for the talks which follow a week of US-Taliban negotiations with both sides eyeing a peace deal. Washington has said it wants to seal a politic...
A decade after Xinjiang riots, ethnic tensions persist
Jul 05, 2019 (AFP)
A pervasive security apparatus has subdued the ethnic unrest that has long plagued the region. Last week, Xinjiang's vice chairman Aierken Tuniyazi told the UN ...
'Rushing for the exits': Rival Afghans meet in Doha
Jul 05, 2019 (AFP)
The first such encounter in Moscow was heralded as a breakthrough but many sensitive issues including women's rights, foreign military withdrawal, Al-Qaeda and ...
Pakistan accuses India of killing five soldiers in Kashmir
Jul 03, 2019 (AFP)
The soldiers were killed in a blast in Barnala, on the Pakistan-administered side of Kashmir, just a few meters from the so-called "Line of Control" that divide...
Erdogan says people live happily in Xinjiang
Jul 03, 2019 (AFP)
Erdogan met Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, four months after the Turkish foreign ministry called the treatment of mostly Muslim Turki...
Fresh bid set to bring Afghans to table for peace deal
Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast Monday that he wants to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, but will leave a strong intelligence presence...
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