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Thailand says assured of Uyghurs' safety after US visa bans
Mar 15, 2025 (AFP)
The Thai government has suffered intense criticism from around the world for its decision to hand over at least 40 Uyghurs, who were flown by special plane to C...
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan sign border deal to boost regional stability
Mar 13, 2025 (AFP)
The deal -- signed in Bishek by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon -- is a sign of how relations between the two allies of...
PKK must disarm 'immediately': Turkey defence ministry source
Mar 06, 2025 (AFP)
"The PKK and all groups affiliated with it must end all terrorist activities, dissolve and immediately and unconditionally lay down their weapons," the source s...
US aid cuts hinder Iraqi repatriations from IS-linked Syria camp: official
Mar 05, 2025 (AFP)
Kurdish-run camps and prisons in northeastern Syria still hold about 56,000 people from dozens of countries, many with alleged or perceived links to the Islamic...
US issues Thailand security alert after Uyghur deportations
Feb 28, 2025 (AFP)
The Thai government has suffered intense criticism from around the world for its decision to hand over at least 40 Uyghurs, who were flown by special plane to C...
Iraq says Ocalan's call to dissolve PKK 'important' for regional security
Feb 28, 2025 (AFP)
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has led a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state, and its presence in Iraq has been a recurrent source of tension ...
Joy and fear among Kurds in Iraq, Syria after Ocalan's call to disarm
Feb 28, 2025 (AFP)
In a potentially seismic shift in Kurdish history, veteran leader Ocalan sent a message this week from his Turkish prison, calling on his Kurdistan Workers' Par...
Syrian Kurdish-led forces say Turkish strikes kill 12
Feb 26, 2025 (AFP)
"Turkish occupation warplanes and UCAVs (drones) targeted a military position belonging to our forces" as well as civilian homes and a vehicle in the Al-Shaddad...
Taliban officials confirm arrest of two Britons and a Chinese-American
Feb 24, 2025 (AFP)
"Based on certain considerations, the authorities have detained four people: two British citizens holding Afghan papers, one person with Chinese and American na...
'Turks, Kurds want the war to end': MP involved in talks
Feb 21, 2025 (AFP)
Hopes are high that Ocalan will soon publicly call on fighters from his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to lay down their arms. At his request, a delegation on S...
Morocco overturns deportation Uyghur man wanted in China
Feb 20, 2025 (AFP)
Yidiresi Aishan has been detained in the North African kingdom since 2021, when he arrived in Casablanca from Turkey with an Interpol arrest warrant against him...
Jailed PKK leader working on Turkey-Kurd peace plan: lawmaker
Feb 17, 2025 (AFP)
A delegation from the main pro-Kurdish DEM party visited Ocalan twice over the past weeks, and then held talks with Turkey's main parliamentary factions before ...
Turkish pro-Kurd MPs meet veteran Kurdish leader in Iraq
Feb 16, 2025 (AFP)
A delegation from the main pro-Kurdish DEM party visited Ocalan twice over the past six weeks, and then held talks with Turkey's main parliamentary factions. Al...
India, Pakistan exchange fire across Kashmir border: reports
Feb 13, 2025 (AFP)
Kashmir has been divided between the neighbours since they were carved out of the Asian subcontinent at the end of British colonial rule in 1947. Both nations c...
China repressing Tibetans, Uyghurs in Switzerland: Bern
Feb 12, 2025 (AFP)
Members of the two Chinese minority groups are subject to "transnational repression", the report said. Besides inciting Tibetans and Uyghurs to spy on their fel...
Syria Kurds aim to empty camps of Syrians, Iraqis; Unpaid Kurdistan salaries cause trouble i Baghdad
Feb 11, 2025 (AFP)
"The autonomous administration is working to empty the camps" of Syrians and Iraqis "in 2025... in coordination with the United Nations", Sheikhmous Ahmed, an o...
Three PKK fighters killed in Iraq strike blamed on Turkey
Feb 06, 2025 (AFP)
Turkey often carries out ground and air operations in northern Iraq against the PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against Ankara. Turkish drones "s...
China eases travel curbs on Uyghurs but maintains 'severe' controls: report
Feb 03, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing stands accused of detaining more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in its northwestern region, in a campaign that the United Nations has said may...
Four killed in Iraq strike blamed on Turkey: sources
Jan 27, 2025 (AFP)
Turkey often carries out ground and air operations in northern Iraq against positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insu...
Turkey FM calls for regional cooperation to fight PKK
Jan 26, 2025 (AFP)
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state, holds positions in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region,...
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