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Jihadists claim responsibility for Iran troops abduction
Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)
"The terrorist group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice in Arabic) has posted two photos... claiming that those in it are the forces abducted" on October 16, ISNA sa...
Barzani party tops Iraq Kurd vote despite failed independence bid
Oct 21, 2018 (AFP)
Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) won 45 of 111 seats in the September 30 elections, up from 38 at the last polls in 2013, according to final results a...
Five Czech soldiers wounded in Afghanistan attack: ministry
Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)
"The attack on the Czech patrol occurred on Wednesday around 1220 GMT near the Bagram base in the Parwan province," the ministry said in a statement. The five s...
At least 11 Iran troops seized on Pakistan border
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
The Guards blamed "terrorist groups that are guided and supported by foreign forces" for the abductions and demanded action from Pakistan. State news agency IRN...
14 Iran security personnel seized on Pakistan border
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
The border guards were "abducted between 4 am and 5 am in the Lulakdan area of the border by a terrorist group," the official IRNA news agency said. Lulakdan is...
China rolls out PR push on Muslim internments
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing has sought to counter a global outcry against the facilities with a series of op-eds and interviews and a roll out of new regulations that retroactively...
Three million Afghans in 'urgent' need of food: UN
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
A dry spell mainly across northern and western Afghanistan has devastated crops, livestock and water supplies, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from thei...
Malaysia frees 11 Uighurs, defying China handover request
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
In the dramatic breakout last November, 25 members of the persecuted minority used blankets to climb out of their cells in a daring pre-dawn escape from immigra...
China says US seeks to 'disturb' Xinjiang policies
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
The report by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China described the situation of human rights in China as "dire" and worsening, a trend epitomised by th...
Afghan farmers fleeing drought face more hardship in camps
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
Ishaqzai, wizened and weather-beaten by decades of working in his wheat field, is one of more than 250,000 people in western Afghanistan displaced by the months...
Afghan casualties from air strikes up 39 percent: UN
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
Air strikes killed or wounded 649 Afghans, more than any full-year period since the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) began keeping records in 2009, ...
China revises controversial anti-terror regulations
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
The revised rules, passed Tuesday, call on local governments to tackle terrorism by establishing "vocational education centres" that will carry out the "educati...
China launches anti-halal crackdown in Xinjiang city
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing has in recent years launched a security crackdown in Xinjiang against what it calls separatist elements, and a UN report has cited estimates that up to ...
Kazakh families torn apart in China's Xinjiang crackdown
Oct 03, 2018 (AFP)
But now Emin County where he grew up is a sealed-off pocket in a region experiencing a security crackdown against what Beijing calls separatist elements. Over a...
Kurdish moderate Barham Saleh elected Iraq president
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
Saleh routed his main rival Fuad Hussein with 219 votes to 22, dealing a blow to Hussein's main backer, former Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani who was...
Iraqi Kurds vote for new parliament
Sep 30, 2018 (AFP)
Almost 3.1 million voters were eligible to cast ballots across three provinces in the northern region, where 673 candidates from 29 political movements conteste...
Still smarting from referendum, Iraqi Kurds to elect new parliament
Sep 27, 2018 (AFP)
Despite deep discontent and divisions, there appears to be little prospect of a major political shakeup as the region grapples with the fallout from the controv...
10 Afghan children, 2 women dead in air strike: UN initial report
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
The latest incident brings to at least 21 -- including 14 children -- the number of civilians killed in air strikes in recent days, according to the UN Assistan...
UN probes 'credible' reports of nine Afghan civilians killed in air strike
Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)
Women and children were among those reportedly killed on Saturday after an "aerial ordnance" hit the home of a teacher in Tagab district in the eastern province...
Canada calls out China for treatment of Uighur minorities
Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)
"Every single time I sit down with any world leader, but particularly ones where there are human rights concerns, I bring up human rights," Prime Minister Justi...
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