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New round of US-Taliban talks starts in Doha
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
The latest negotiations come as pressure builds for some sort of breakthrough in the gruelling Afghan conflict, with Washington jostling for a resolution. Accor...
NATO drops another Afghanistan war metric: US watchdog
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
NATO's Resolute Support mission previously gave a running tally on who controlled or was contesting Afghanistan's districts, and the percentage of the Afghan po...
UN adds Pakistani militant chief Masood Azhar to terror list
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
The UN sanctions committee on the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda announced in a press release the designation of Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), over his t...
Kabul on lockdown as assembly discusses peace with the Taliban
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
Police flooded the city and authorities blocked off key roads around the west Kabul venue of the so-called "loya jirga" -- where some 3,000 tribal elders, relig...
China defends Xinjiang crackdown after UN chief raises issue
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
Guterres had been under pressure from rights groups to publicly confront Beijing over the mass detention of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking mino...
China frees 'lost' Uighur wives but at a price, families say
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
The group of around 40 women -- all from the western Chinese province of Xinjiang and married to traders from neighbouring Pakistan -- were among some one milli...
Thousands gather in Kabul for Afghan peace meeting
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
More than 3,000 people were attending the rare "loya jirga", which is being billed as the largest in modern Afghan history, in a bid to set possible conditions ...
UN chief tells China to uphold rights in Xinjiang
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
Guterres faced calls to speak out on human rights during his visit to Beijing where he attended a summit on Saturday of China's prized Belt and Road Initiative ...
US envoy, Ghani push 'intra-Afghan' talks: palace
Apr 27, 2019 (AFP)
Their meeting came during a marathon multi-country tour by Khalilzad, who is to visit Qatar -- the usual venue for talks with the Taliban. "Dr. Khalilzad briefe...
Afghanistan's grand assembly for troubled peace process
Apr 26, 2019 (AFP)
More than 2,000 people have been invited to gather amid tight security for four days of debate under a large tent in Kabul. Here is a look at the history of loy...
US agrees with Russia, China on pulling troops from Afghanistan
Apr 26, 2019 (AFP)
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy who is set shortly to hold his latest round of talks with the Taliban, called the consensus a "milestone" in efforts to end the w...
US envoy returns after Taliban-Afghan talks scuttled
Apr 22, 2019 (AFP)
Zalmay Khalilzad left Sunday on a journey that will run through May 11 and take him both to Afghanistan and Qatar, the usual venue for talks with the Taliban. I...
India suspends Kashmir border trade with Pakistan
Apr 19, 2019 (AFP)
Kashmir has been on edge since a February suicide attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitaries and brought the two countries to the brink of war with cross-borde...
Peace hopes suffer setback as Taliban-Afghan talks derailed
Apr 19, 2019 (AFP)
The so-called intra-Afghan dialogue, due to take place in Doha this weekend, fell apart at the last minute in a row over the large number of delegates Kabul wan...
Iraq frees Frenchman, says entered Syria to 'support Yazidis'
Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)
Instead, the Baghdad court said, their interrogations had found the unnamed Frenchman travelled to Syria "in support of the Yazidi cause". In February, the US-l...
Poppies bloom across Afghanistan as drought eases
Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)
The sight of a seemingly endless expanse of opium-producing flowers is common across rural Afghanistan, but this farm is in the centre of government-controlled ...
'Unpatriotic' Afghan war film angers Russian veterans
Apr 17, 2019 (AFP)
"Brotherhood" is distributed by the local arm of Walt Disney and is sharply different in tone from recent patriotic war blockbusters. Shot by renowned Russian d...
Talks in trouble as Taliban slam Afghan guest list
Apr 17, 2019 (AFP)
President Ashraf Ghani's administration had announced Tuesday a list of people from all walks of Afghan life, including some from the government, that it wants ...
Hundreds of Afghan delegates to meet with Taliban in Doha
Apr 16, 2019 (AFP)
A massive roster published by the presidential palace comprises 250 names, including President Ashraf Ghani's chief of staff, Abdul Salam Rahimi, as well as his...
Syria Kurds announce deal for return of 31,000 displaced Iraqis
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of people live in the camps, which swelled during the months-long battle by a Kurdish-led force against the last vestige of the Islamic State ...
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