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Turkey says will fight terror after death of Iraqi border guards
Jan 25, 2025 (AFP)
On Friday, Iraq's interior ministry said the two Iraqi guards were killed near the Turkish border in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. "When the Iraqi border fo...
How the Taliban restrict women's lives in Afghanistan
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
This week, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders over the persecution of women,...
China lodges protest with Afghanistan over mine worker killing
Jan 23, 2025 (AFP)
"The Chinese side urgently lodged solemn representations with the Afghan side, demanding that (they) thoroughly investigate and punish the perpetrators," foreig...
Chinese mine worker killed in IS-claimed attack in Afghanistan
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
The Chinese citizen was travelling on Tuesday evening in northern Takhar province bordering Tajikistan when he was killed by "unknown armed men", provincial pol...
Syria defence minister says open to talks with Kurds, but ready to use 'force'
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
"The door to negotiation with the (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces) SDF is currently open," Murhaf Abu Qasra told reporters including AFP. "If we have to u...
37 killed in north Syria clashes between pro-Turkey, Kurdish forces: monitor
Jan 09, 2025 (AFP)
The latest reported fighting comes despite the United States saying Wednesday that it was working to address Turkey's concerns in Syria to dissuade the NATO all...
Syria monitor: 101 killed in battles between pro-Turkey, Kurdish forces
Jan 05, 2025 (AFP)
Since Friday evening, clashes in several villages around the city of Manbij have left 101 dead, including 85 members of pro-Turkish groups and 16 from the Kurdi...
Iraqi Kurdish city bans groups accused of PKK links
Jan 02, 2025 (AFP)
The four organisations include two feminist groups and a media production house, according to the METRO centre for press freedoms which organised a news confere...
Pakistan soldier killed in border clash with Afghan forces: security source
Dec 28, 2024 (AFP)
Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan and Kh...
Pakistan military convicts 60 more civilians of pro-Khan unrest
Dec 26, 2024 (AFP)
Ex-prime minister Khan was arrested in May last year after being ousted from office and mounting an unprecedented campaign of defiance against the nation's powe...
Bodies of about 100 Kurdish women, children found in Iraq mass grave
Dec 26, 2024 (AFP)
The grave was discovered in Tal al-Shaikhia in the Muthanna province in southern Iraq, about 15-20 kilometres (10-12 miles) from the main road there, an AFP jou...
Pakistan air strikes kill 46 in Afghanistan; UN calls for investigation
Dec 25, 2024 (AFP)
The strikes were the latest spike in hostilities on the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with tensions escalating since the Taliban seized power in 20...
Pakistan air strikes kill 46 in Afghanistan: Taliban spokesman
Dec 25, 2024 (AFP)
The strikes were the latest spike in hostilities on the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with border tensions between the two countries escalating sin...
Pakistan military courts convict 25 of pro-Khan unrest
Dec 21, 2024 (AFP)
Ex-prime minister Khan was arrested in May last year after being ousted from office and mounting an unprecedented campaign of defiance against the nation's powe...
U.S. imposes additional sanctions targeting Pakistan's ballistic missile program
Dec 19, 2024 (UPI)
The sanctions, which were announced Wednesday by the U.S. State Department, hit Karachi-based firms Rockside Enterprise, Affiliates International and Akhtar and...
Russia detains Uzbekistan national for killing of top Kremlin general
Dec 18, 2024 (UPI)
Russia's Investigative Committee identified the suspect in a statement as a citizen of Uzbekistan, born in 1995. He is accused of killing Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov...
Republicans grill Blinken on 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
Dec 11, 2024 (UPI)
Thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed during the withdrawal. Blinken told the Republican-led committee, "I firmly believe the president's decision to withdraw from...
'The revolution has won': Syrians in Iraqi Kurdistan celebrate Assad's fall
Dec 08, 2024 (AFP)
After nearly 14 years of civil war in their home country, Syrians gathered near the centuries-old citadel in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil, many of them break...
Syrian Kurds arrive in safe areas after Turkish-backed offensive
Dec 02, 2024 (AFP)
The US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had said earlier on Monday that it was seeking to evacuate Kurdish civilians around Aleppo province to...
Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks: Taliban
Dec 01, 2024 (AFP)
The Afghan delegation were invited as "guests" of the Azerbaijani hosts, not as a party directly involved in the negotiations. It was the first time that an Afg...
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