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China data leak exposes mass surveillance in Xinjiang
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
Xinjiang is home to most of China's Uighur ethnic minority lives and has been under heavy police surveillance in recent years after violent inter-ethnic tension...
Iraqi Kurds elect first woman speaker as stop-gap
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
During the body's first session since the September polls deputies chose Vala Farid from former regional leader Massud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP...
PAE awarded $27.6M contract for Afghanistan defense, security support
Feb 15, 2019 (UPI)
Work on the U.S. Army contract, announced Thursday by the Pentagon, will be performed in Hikia, Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 30, 2022....
No unilateral US pullout from Afghanistan: Pentagon chief
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
Acting defence secretary Patrick Shanahan said any decision to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan would be taken in coordination with NATO, which run...
Taliban announce talks with US in Islamabad
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
While Islamabad did not immediately confirm the talks, Washington said it had "noted" the announcement, which comes after weeks of meetings between the US and T...
French victory ends long asylum battle of Afghan interpreters
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
But for years after the French troops pulled out, many Afghan interpreters were left exposed to revenge attacks by Islamist fundamentalists and denied asylum by...
Families of missing Uighurs demand 'proof of life' videos from China
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
The social media campaign was launched Tuesday under the hashtag #MeTooUyghur after China released a video of a man who identified himself as Uighur poet and mu...
Taliban unveils negotiating team ahead of US peace talks
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
United States special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has undertaken extensive recent peace talks with the Taliban about ending the 17-year war in Afghanistan, with anot...
China rejects Turkey criticism on Uighurs, denies poet died
Feb 11, 2019 (AFP)
Turkey's foreign ministry had released a statement on Saturday severely criticising China's mass detentions of its Turkic-speaking Uighurs, and claiming that po...
The US intervention in Afghanistan since 2001
Feb 11, 2019 (AFP)
As President Donald Trump pushes to end the US involvement in Afghanistan, where 14,000 US troops are still stationed, here is a timeline of its involvement sin...
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan meets Afghan president in Kabul
Feb 11, 2019 (AFP)
The visit comes after Washington held major talks with Taliban officials in Qatar last month that negotiators hope could herald a breakthrough in the grinding 1...
China's treatment of Uighurs is 'embarrassment for humanity': Turkey
Feb 09, 2019 (AFP)
"The systematic assimilation policy of Chinese authorities towards Uighur Turks is a great embarrassment for humanity," Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami ...
Kurdish-led forces ready for push on last IS pocket
Feb 08, 2019 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump predicted that the once-sprawling proto-state's official defeat could be proclaimed as early as next week but operations have been pau...
Trump says 'it's time' to end Afghan war - can he?
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
Touting talks with the Taliban, Trump in his State of the Union address on Tuesday said "the hour has come to at least try for peace" and close out America's lo...
Protest in New York over fate of China's Uighurs
Feb 05, 2019 (AFP)
The appeal was launched by a young medical student, Yosef Roth, who had no connection with this Muslim minority before mobilizing for this cause. "The magnitude...
Kabul must be involved in peace talks: US general
Feb 05, 2019 (AFP)
A months-long drive by the US to engage with the Taliban has ostensibly been aimed at convincing them to talk to Kabul, but the Taliban see President Ashraf Gha...
Rights groups urge UN to probe China crackdown in Xinjiang
Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)
"The abuse in Xinjiang today is so severe that it cries out for international action," Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth told reporters in Geneva. HRW and m...
Trump pushes withdrawal from 'endless' Afghanistan, Syria wars
Feb 03, 2019 (AFP)
Trump cited the high cost in blood and money after years of fighting in Afghanistan, in arguing for a US withdrawal from the place where the 9/11 attacks were h...
Taliban to meet Afghan opposition in Moscow: official
Feb 03, 2019 (AFP)
The two-day sit-down in Moscow, starting Tuesday, will be attended by some of President Ashraf Ghani's chief political rivals, but none of the government envoys...
Erik Prince-linked FSG signs preliminary Xinjiang training deal
Feb 01, 2019 (AFP)
Frontier Services Group, which specialises in providing security and logistics for businesses operating in risky regions, said it had signed a deal to run a tra...
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