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Pakistan FM in China to talk about US Afghan pullout
Dec 25, 2018 (AFP)
As China looks to expand its role as a peace broker in South Asia, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi duri...
Turkey sends troops to Syria border as US prepares for pullout talks
Dec 24, 2018 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw 2,000 US troops from northern Syria has dismayed many of Washington's allies, and critics say Turkey will look ...
Decision made for 'significant' troop withdrawal from Afghanistan: US official
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
"That decision has been made. There will be a significant withdrawal," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Currently, the United States has about 1...
Trump to pull half of US troops from Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the US official told AFP that "roughly half" of the 14,000 US forces in Afghanistan would leave "within the next several mon...
Kurds: one stateless people across four countries
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
- Mountain people - The Kurds inhabit mainly mountainous regions that cover almost half a million square kilometres (200,000 square miles), spanning from southe...
Erdogan vows to clear Syria of Kurd militia, IS
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
Erdogan's promise followed the shock decision by US President Donald Trump to pull out 2,000 American ground forces from Syria on the grounds that IS had been "...
Muslim Pakistan says outcry over China detention camps 'sensationalised'
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
Numerous extrajudicial detention centres have been set up in China's vast, troubled Xinjiang region, holding as many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other Mus...
Central Asians cry out over China's secret detention camps
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
Shairbek Doolotkhan, a Chinese-born Muslim and mining executive, had told his wife everything was fine when he travelled to his company's office in Xinjiang to ...
War hero or murderer? Trump weighs in on military case
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
What is less certain is whether Major Matt Golsteyn, who has admitted to the killing, should be considered a cold-blooded killer or a war hero. The Army last we...
Ankara calls on Iraq to help in fight against PKK
Dec 15, 2018 (AFP)
"Turkey assumes all its responsibilities in the fight against terrorism" and supported Iraq in this regard, said a foreign ministry statement, which said Ankara...
Pentagon cautions Turkey over new operation against Syria Kurds
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
The warning came after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would soon begin a mission targeting the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara...
Don't cross the line, Pakistan army warns Pashtun activist group
Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)
Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said the armed forces were watching the Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) closely. He told reporters in Islamabad ...
NATO concerned by high Afghan security losses
Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)
Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie has warned that unless recruiting and training improve, local forces will not overcome the current casualty rate. McKenzie h...
Afghan security losses may not be sustainable: US general
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
Since the start of 2015, when Afghan police and army units succeeded NATO as bearing responsibility for Afghanistan's security, tens of thousands of local force...
Afghan blast claims life of fourth US soldier
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
Sergeant Jason Mitchell McClary, 24, from Pennsylvania, died on Sunday, after being treated in a US military hospital in Germany, the Pentagon said in a stateme...
US airstrike kills key Taliban leader in Afghanistan
Dec 02, 2018 (AFP)
Abdul Manan, who was the Taliban's 'shadow governor' in the southern Helmand province, died of wounds sustained during an airstrike late on Saturday said Omar Z...
23 civilians killed in US air strike in southern Afghanistan: UN
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
"Initial findings indicate that the vast majority of the victims were women and children," the UN mission in Afghanistan said in a report received by AFP late T...
War no option for India and Pakistan, says Imran Khan
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
The Pakistani leader was speaking at a ceremony breaking ground on a secure corridor for Sikhs in India to visit a shrine to their religion's founder in eastern...
Drought, conflict driving Afghans to marry off children: UN
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
In the drought-hit Herat and Baghdis provinces of Afghanistan, the UN children's agency estimates that at least 161 children between the ages of one month and 1...
Three US soldiers killed in Afghanistan: NATO
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
NATO's Resolute Support mission would not immediately release any details about the identity of the soldiers, whose deaths took the number of American service p...
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