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Kabul control slips in Afghanistan amid US talks with Taliban
Jan 31, 2019 (AFP)
The latest grim assessment of Afghanistan's security situation comes as the US pursues talks with the Taliban and urgently seeks a way out of the 17-year war. N...
US-Taliban talks 'on the right path', says US envoy
Jan 31, 2019 (AFP)
It comes after Khalilzad confirmed to media this week that Washington and the Taliban had a "draft framework" in place for a deal which could pave the way for t...
US lawmakers nominate jailed Uighur scholar for Nobel peace prize
Jan 30, 2019 (AFP)
Senators Marco Rubio, a Republican, and Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, both signed the nomination letter, which came from the bipar...
In God's name: how extremists hijacked Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
Few issues are as inflammatory in the conservative Islamic republic as blasphemy. Here's a brief history of where the law came from and how it has changed the c...
China says EU tour of restive region gave 'objective' insight
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
The European Union team was given rare access earlier this month to a "vocational education centre" -- the term used by China for facilities that rights groups ...
US envoy confirms 'draft framework' with Taliban: NYT
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
The comments by special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to the New York Times are the clearest signal yet from a US official that talks between Washington and the milita...
EU team gets rare access to China's restive Xinjiang
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
The team was supervised by Chinese officials during on the three-day trip this month, but managed to gather information the EU said builds on "compelling and mu...
Baghdad to summon Turkey envoy over death of Kurdish protester
Jan 27, 2019 (AFP)
On Saturday night, Kurdish protesters stormed a Turkish army position in the Shiladzeh region of northwestern Iraq to protest the deaths of four civilians they ...
Protesters storm Turkish base in Iraq's Kurdish region
Jan 26, 2019 (AFP)
Demonstrators had gathered outside the Turkish-operated base in the northwestern Duhok region in anger over the deaths of four civilians last week, which they b...
Afghanistan investigates claims civilians killed in air strikew
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
The reports come as civilian deaths from air strikes have risen sharply in the past year, after the Afghan and US forces intensified their aerial bombardment of...
Afghan spy agency says it killed Taliban base attack mastermind
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
Monday's violence was the latest high-casualty assault on Afghan forces, who experts say are continuing to suffer "unsustainable" losses since NATO withdrew com...
Second US soldier of 2019 killed in Afghanistan
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
"The incident is under investigation," NATO's Resolute Support mission said in a statement. "In accordance with US Department of Defense policy, the name of the...
Afghanistan protestors march for peace
Jan 17, 2019 (AFP)
In Kandahar, the southern cradle of the Taliban, and in the eastern cities of Khost and Jalalabad, they marched holding placards saying: "No War", "We want ceas...
Kyrgyzstan arrests 21 at anti-China rally
Jan 17, 2019 (AFP)
Police said they made the arrests at the rally opposing migration from China and its growing economic clout after demonstrators attempted to block the road and ...
Kabul faces water crisis as drought, population strain supply
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
A shortage of rain and snow, a booming population and wasteful consumption have drained the Afghan capital's water basin and sparked a race to the bottom as hou...
Iraq deploys special forces in Kirkuk amid Kurdish flag dispute
Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)
Iraq's counter-terrorism chief gave President Barham Saleh's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) until noon on Friday to lower the red, white, green and yellow f...
US envoy on new Afghanistan peace trip
Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)
Khalilzad, who met Taliban representatives last month in Abu Dhabi, will travel to Afghanistan as well as China, India and Pakistan on the trip lasting through ...
China says UN observers welcome to Xinjiang, with conditions
Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)
This comes after UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in December her office was seeking access to the region to verify reports of re-education camps ho...
In Kurdish Iraq, women strive to end genital mutilation
Jan 02, 2019 (AFP)
"I know you're home! I just want to talk," called out Kurdistan Rasul, 35, a pink headscarf forming a sort of halo around her plump features. For many, she is a...
Pakistani militant wanted in Chinese attack killed in Afghanistan
Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)
Aslam Baloch was believed to be one of the leaders of the Balochistan Liberation Army, one of a myriad of insurgent groups fighting in Pakistan's restive southw...
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