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Afghan officials say Islamic State leader killed by airstrikes
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
The intelligence agency said Saad Arhabi died in a joint operation with coalition forces late Saturday in the group's eastern stronghold in Nangarhar province n...
Germany halts deportation of Uighurs to China over rights
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
In a case that made waves earlier this month, German authorities acknowledged that the 22-year-old asylum seeker, who was not named, was deported to China by th...
Afghanistan has 'unprecedented' opportunity for peace: US general
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
General John Nicholson, the outgoing commander of NATO's Resolute Support mission, spoke to Pentagon reporters a year after Trump unveiled his Afghanistan strat...
Hours-long battle ends in Kabul after militants killed
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
The attack, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, was near the presidential palace as President Ashraf Ghani was addressing the nation on the first day of th...
Pakistan's new foreign minister calls for dialogue with India
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
"We are not only two neighbours but we are two atomic powers," Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who became Pakistan's foreign minister for the second time after being swor...
Game changer or not? A year of Trump's Afghan plan
Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)
Each successful attack represents a massive setback not just for the Afghanistan government, which is pushing for peace talks with the Taliban, but also for the...
Cricket hero Imran Khan sworn in as PM, taking power in Pakistan
Aug 18, 2018 (AFP)
The ceremony at the President's House in the capital marks the end of decades of rotating leadership between the ousted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and...
No place to hide: exiled Chinese Uighurs feel state's long reach
Aug 17, 2018 (AFP)
A member of China's Muslim Uighur minority, Mariem travelled halfway around the world to study in France, but has found herself pulled into a mass security crac...
Imran Khan set for victory as Pakistan MPs vote on new PM
Aug 17, 2018 (AFP)
A simple majority in the vote, due to take place in the lower house of parliament on Friday afternoon, will bring Khan one step closer to power ahead of a swear...
Ghazni residents emerge after Taliban pushed from city
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
Security forces were on patrol and no militants were in sight in the centre of the shattered city, with fighting seeming to have ceased. But despite the success...
Taliban 'showing strength' with assault on Afghan city: analysts
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
Kabul insists it remains in government hands, but residents have told AFP the insurgents remain entrenched in the streets, burning buildings and targeting civil...
US soldier killed in Afghanistan
Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)
According to a statement, Staff Sergeant Reymund Rarogal Transfiguracion died Sunday after an improvised explosive device detonated near him while he was conduc...
China denies internment of 1 mn Uighurs
Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)
A Chinese official told a UN human rights committee in Geneva that tough security measures in China's far-west Xinjiang region were necessary to combat extremis...
Taliban delegation visits Uzbekistan to talk peace, security
Aug 12, 2018 (AFP)
The meetings in Afghanistan's northern neighbour follow recent reports that the Taliban sent similar delegations to China, illustrating the group's rising ambit...
Pakistan's Imran Khan to be sworn in as PM August 18: party
Aug 10, 2018 (AFP)
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said the entire squad that Khan captained to victory in the 1992 World Cup were invited to the ceremony, as well as ...
Afghan forces search for Taliban fighters after major attack
Aug 10, 2018 (AFP)
Afghan special forces were deployed to Ghazni after the latest attempt by the Taliban to capture an urban centre, with the assault coming as pressure builds on ...
Pakistan defends its economic partnership with China
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
"We have noted recent media reports questioning the viability of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), claiming that it would create an unbearable debt burde...
Bodies of Czech soldiers killed in Afghanistan returned home
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
Staff sergeant Martin Marcin, 36, and corporals Kamil Benes, 28, and Patrik Stepanek, 25, died while on patrol in the east of the country while a US member of t...
NATO probing reports nine Afghan police killed in US air strike
Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)
Afghan officials have confirmed the deaths, with interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi saying nine police were killed and 14 wounded in the aerial bombardme...
In new admin error, Germany expels Uighur man to China
Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)
Officials were due to hold a hearing with the 22-year-old Uighur, who was not named, on April 3 over his asylum application, said regional public broadcaster Ba...
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