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US brands Baloch militants in Pakistan as terrorists
Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)
The State Department said it was classifying the Balochistan Liberation Army as a global terrorist group, making it a crime for anyone in the United States to a...
Malaysian minister criticised for Uighur camp visit
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese authorities have placed an estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps that Beijing claims are needed to steer people away...
Fake tourists and car crashes: How China blocks reporters in Xinjiang
Jun 27, 2019 (AFP)
A small truck slowly inched towards a car parked on the road before stopping -- just short of contact -- as the reporters drove past the scene. The "accident" l...
US, Taliban to hold more talks on ending war
Jun 22, 2019 (AFP)
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special representative on Afghanistan, said the two sides would start their seventh round of talks on June 29. "Based on my recent visi...
Pompeo asks Pakistan to do more on religious freedom
Jun 21, 2019 (AFP)
Releasing an annual report on international religious freedom, Pompeo estimated that more than 40 others were serving life sentences or facing execution for bla...
Under US pressure, Afghan army starts closing checkpoints
Jun 18, 2019 (AFP)
The post in Wardak province west of Kabul has been hit before, and its sagging blast walls and teetering sandbags make clear the vulnerability of the 13 troops ...
Belgium seeks Uighur family in Xinjiang after disappearance
Jun 18, 2019 (AFP)
The disappearance of the woman and her four children has alarmed her husband, as an estimated one million ethnic Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are ...
China slams US criticism of UN envoy's Xinjiang trip
Jun 17, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese authorities have placed an estimated one million people, many of them ethnic Uighurs, in internment camps in Xinjiang that Beijing downplays as "vocatio...
US unhappy about UN counterterror envoy's Xinjiang visit
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
The world body said Thursday that Vladimir Voronkov, the under-secretary general for counterterrorism, was on a visit to China. UN sources said that trip includ...
UN counter-terror czar visits China's Xinjiang
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
Vladimir Voronkov, the under-secretary general for counter-terrorism, is the highest level UN official to visit Xinjiang, which activists have described as an o...
Cousins in command seal family rule over Iraq Kurds: analysts
Jun 11, 2019 (AFP)
With his son and nephew at the helm, veteran leader Masoud Barzani is expected to remain the region's "real boss," despite no longer holding a formal government...
US praises Kazakhstan over Uighur rights
Jun 06, 2019 (AFP)
David Ranz, a US diplomat in charge of Central Asia, pointed to Kazakhstan as an example as he addressed a symposium in Washington on the mounting human rights ...
Afghan peace marchers reappear safe after Taliban 'discussions'
Jun 06, 2019 (AFP)
The so-called People's Peace Movement attracted international attention last year when they walked hundreds of kilometres across Afghanistan and into the capita...
Wrecked mosques, police watch: A tense Ramadan in Xinjiang
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
While Muslims around the world celebrated the end of Ramadan with prayers and festivities this week, the recent destruction of dozens of mosques in Xinjiang hig...
Uighur leader urges pressure on China as he receives US award
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
The National Endowment for Democracy, which is funded by the US Congress to promote democracy worldwide, gave its annual award to the World Uyghur Congress as w...
Taliban detain Afghan peace marchers, supporters say
Jun 04, 2019 (AFP)
The so-called People's Peace Movement attracted international attention last year when they walked across Afghanistan and into the capital Kabul in an attempt t...
Nearly half of rural Afghans face food insecurity: UN
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
Described by some locals as the worst in a lifetime, Afghanistan's drought had a devastating effect on rural populations last year, the UN Office for the Coordi...
Xinjiang whistleblower quits Kazakhstan seeking Swedish asylum
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
Sayragul Sauytbay, a Chinese citizen of Kazakh descent, and her family travelled to Sweden which had granted her an alien's passport for the journey, her lawyer...
US heads to new talks with Taliban; As Kabul suicide blast kills 8
Jun 01, 2019 (AFP)
Zalmay Khalilzad, a veteran US policymaker who is leading President Donald Trump's push to broker a peace deal with the Taliban, left Friday on a 17-day trip th...
Taliban, Afghan opposition officials claim 'progress' at talks
May 30, 2019 (AFP)
The ultra-conservative Islamist insurgents spent more than two days at a plush hotel in central Moscow, where they met several leading Afghan politicians -- inc...
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