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Erdogan meets Iraqi president as Turkey launches strikes on PKK
May 28, 2019 (AFP)
The two leaders held talks in Istanbul before attending a Ramadan dinner together. A picture on the Turkish presidency's official website showed Erdogan and Sal...
Lawmakers elect Nechirvan Barzani president of Iraqi Kurdistan
May 28, 2019 (AFP)
The deputy leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party won 68 votes from the 81 members present in the 111-seat chamber, an AFP correspondent reported. The Patriot...
Senior Taliban leader says insurgents want peace
May 28, 2019 (AFP)
In a message the Taliban have not altered since talks with the US started last autumn, Taliban co-founder and political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said t...
Russia invites Taliban, Afghan officials to Moscow meet
May 27, 2019 (AFP)
The meeting -- set to run the 28th and 29th of May -- will mark the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman ...
India, Pakistan PMs speak for 1st time since air strikes
May 26, 2019 (AFP)
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated his counterpart Narendra Modi on his recent election victory, the two nuclear-armed arch foes said in separate...
Two air strikes kill 14 Afghan civilians: UN mission
May 23, 2019 (AFP)
According to the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), five women and seven children were among the 14 civilians killed in Helmand province in the south on May 20,...
At least 8 Afghan police killed in airstrike: official
May 17, 2019 (AFP)
Police were fighting the Taliban in Helmand province late Thursday when the Afghan forces called for air support. "I can confirm an airstrike on the Afghan poli...
China pushes inter-ethnic marriage in Xinjiang assimilation drive
May 17, 2019 (AFP)
Following a flare-up in violence in 2014, Chinese authorities have rolled out draconian security measures across Xinjiang in recent years, from banning long bea...
The Baloch vs Beijing: Pakistani militancy targets Chinese investment
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
A deadly weekend attack by gunmen who stormed the luxury Pearl Continental hotel in Gwadar, a port on Pakistan's southern coast, was the latest high-profile ass...
UN probes casualty claims from US strikes in Afghanistan
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
The allegations centre on strikes conducted earlier this month in Farah and Nimroz provinces, where dozens of structures said to have been used to produce heroi...
EU urges China to 'change situation' in Xinjiang
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
China has come under increasing global scrutiny over its treatment of ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minorities in Xinjiang, with the EU and the Unite...
China, US clash at UN over Uighur detentions
May 07, 2019 (AFP)
It was the second time in as many weeks that the two countries openly clashed at the United Nations over the rights of the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minor...
China denounces Xinjiang 'concentration camp' slurs; wages social media war
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
The comments are "totally inconsistent with the facts", said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang at a regular press briefing in Beijing. "The Chinese...
US-Taliban peace talks paused for first day of Ramadan
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
The foes have spent much of the past week in a sixth round of talks in Doha aimed at ending America's longest war, with US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad leading ...
US-Taliban talks stumble over troop withdrawal: Taliban
May 05, 2019 (AFP)
The Taliban and US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad have met repeatedly in the Qatari capital Doha in recent months in a bid to finally end Afghanistan's gruelling ...
Envoy says US ready for 'all sides' to lay down arms in Afghan war
May 04, 2019 (AFP)
Peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is leading the latest round of talks with the Taliban in Doha, where the two foes are pursuing a deal that would see the withdrawal...
Afghanistan loya jirga demands 'immediate and permanent' ceasefire
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
This week's loya jirga, or grand assembly, saw about 3,200 religious and tribal leaders, politicians and representatives try to find a breakthrough in Afghanist...
Massive Afghanistan peace summit ends in Kabul
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
This week's "loya jirga", or grand assembly, saw about 3,200 religious and tribal leaders, politicians and representatives gather under tight security to try to...
Xinjiang crackdown at the heart of China's Belt and Road
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
It's a stark reminder of the severe security policies that China has imposed on mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in its vast border region of Xinjiang, which it ...
Xinjiang surveillance app targets legal, everyday behaviour: rights group
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing has come under international criticism over its policies in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where as many as one million Uighurs and other mostly Musl...
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