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Pentagon adjusts tactics as Afghan army toll rises: Mattis
Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)
The Taliban are killing hundreds of Afghan army and police forces each month. The New York Times said the death toll is making it harder to recruit new soldiers...
Sweden temporarily halts Uighur deportations to China
Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)
"Information from several human rights organisations indicates that the situation for Uighurs has deteriorated" in the western region of Xinjiang, the Swedish M...
US criticizes treatment of Uighurs in latest China row
Sep 21, 2018 (AFP)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced alarm after a United Nations report described the mass internment of Uighurs under the pretext of preventing extremism in ...
Uzbeks attend first electronic music fest by ravaged Aral Sea
Sep 15, 2018 (AFP)
The event, called Stihia or Element in Russian, was the first electronic music festival ever held in the Central Asian state, which has recently moved to open u...
Indian forces kill five suspected rebels in Kashmir
Sep 15, 2018 (AFP)
Hundreds of people thronged a site where security forces had besieged a group of militants, throwing rocks at soldiers in a bid to help the rebels escape, witne...
Iran says strike on Kurd rebels warning to 'foreign powers'
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
The elite Guards fired seven medium-range ballistic missiles at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Koysinjaq in Iraq's autonomous Kur...
Iran Kurd rebels pick up pieces after missile attack
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
The man is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, a rebel group based in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, whose headquarters were targete...
Press freedom in Pakistan under pressure by military
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
The army, Pakistan's most powerful institution, has "quietly, but effectively, set restrictions on reporting", from barring access to encouraging self-censorshi...
Campaigning begins for Iraqi Kurdish parliamentary vote
Sep 11, 2018 (AFP)
Around 673 candidates from 29 political movements have thrown their hats into the ring hoping to secure one of 111 seats in Kurdistan's parliament at the electi...
Pakistan sentences nearly 30 people to death in a month
Sep 10, 2018 (AFP)
The military said the 13 convicted militants sentenced Monday were involved in attacks on the armed forces, destruction of schools, and killing of innocent civi...
Rights group calls for China sanctions over mass detentions
Sep 10, 2018 (AFP)
China has long imposed draconian restrictions on the lives of Muslim minorities in its Xinjiang region in the name of combating terrorism and separatism, with p...
Iran Guards confirm missile strikes on Kurd rebels in Iraq
Sep 09, 2018 (AFP)
"The terrorists' headquarters... was successfully struck by seven surface-to-surface rockets on Saturday by the missile department of the Guards' aerospace forc...
Mattis makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan
Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)
His trip comes a little more than a year after President Donald Trump unveiled a revamped strategy for Afghanistan that saw him commit thousands of additional U...
Pakistani lawmakers elect Imran Khan ally as president
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
Former dentist Arif Alvi, one of the founders of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, will replace Mamnoon Hussain after the vote by more than a thousan...
US commando takes helm of forces in Afghanistan
Sep 02, 2018 (AFP)
Miller, who has commanded special operations units in Afghanistan since 2013, succeeds General John Nicholson, who is rotating out of the post after more than t...
Pentagon moves to scrap $300 million in aid to Pakistan
Sep 02, 2018 (AFP)
The US has been pushing Pakistan to crack down on militant safe havens in the country, and announced a freeze on aid at the beginning of the year that an offici...
China disputes UN report on Uighur discrimination
Aug 31, 2018 (AFP)
Up to one million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained in internment camps in China's far western Xinjiang region, according to estimates cite...
China rebukes US lawmakers for Xinjiang sanctions call
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
"The US has no right to criticise China on this issue, to be a judge in this regard," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, pointing to America's own ...
US lawmakers call for sanctions over Xinjiang camps
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, the members of Congress -- from both parties -- called for sanctions against...
Private army in Afghanistan 'not a wise idea': Mattis
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
"When Americans put their nation's credibility on the line, privatizing it is probably not a wise idea," Mattis told Pentagon reporters. Erik Prince, the former...
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