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Eleven police killed in attacks in Afghanistan
Dec 17, 2017 (AFP)
The assaults were the latest in a series of deadly attacks claimed by the Taliban on Afghan police and troops. Taliban insurgents launched the assaults in the e...
In Kashmir, Pakistan and India race to tap the Himalayas
Dec 17, 2017 (AFP)
The arch rivals have been building duelling power plants along the banks of the turquoise Neelum River for years. The two projects, located on opposite sides of...
Chinese man jailed for stomping on Genghis Khan portrait
Dec 15, 2017 (AFP)
In a video that he shared online this May, the man surnamed Luo stood inside a yurt and stomped on a picture of legendary conqueror Genghis Khan, a public secur...
US military touts drug lab air strikes in Afghanistan
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
According to Air Force Brigadier General Lance Bunch, US and Afghan warplanes have destroyed 25 drug processing labs since the campaign started on November 20. ...
Iraq Kurds denounce PM for comparing them to jihadists
Dec 08, 2017 (AFP)
At a meeting of his Dawa party on Wednesday, Abadi said: "To have maintained Iraqi unity and prevented the crime of partition is a victory as great as that agai...
Car bomb hits Iraqi Kurdish area, causing deaths: party official
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
"A car bomb exploded around 7:30 pm (1630 GMT) in the Shahid Rustum camp, two kilometres (one mile) east of the town of Makhmur, killing and wounding people," s...
US defense chief lands in Pakistan as ties between allies fray
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
Mattis met with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and the powerful military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa during his brief stopover in the capital Islamabad...
Russia says provided air cover for Kurdish militia in Syria
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
The statement came the day after a Russian military delegation met with officials of the Kurdish People's Protection Units militia (YPG), which acknowledged rec...
US-funded border inspection gear sits idle in Afghanistan
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
In 2006, the US military's Central Command purchased eight "non-intrusive inspection" scanners, designed to detect narcotics, chemicals and other illicit goods,...
Turkey claims over 80 'terrorists' killed in northern Iraq
Nov 29, 2017 (AFP)
The military said there were also "several" injured members of the "separatist terrorist organisation" -- Turkey's official term for the outlawed Kurdistan Work...
Over 1,000 US troops to patrol with Afghans in 2018
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
General John Nicholson, who commands US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said "well over 1,000" advisors would be out conducting combat operations on the front l...
Commuters happy, Pakistan uneasy after Islamist deal
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
The Islamabad Highway, used daily by thousands travelling from the garrison city of Rawalpindi into the Pakistani capital, was back to normal Tuesday, with traf...
Kurds accuse Baghdad of refusing dialogue
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
"We think the problems between Baghdad and Arbil should be resolved through serious dialogue and not via the media, but so far Baghdad is not ready for dialogue...
Syria Kurds say US to 'adjust' weapons deliveries
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
The Pentagon, however, was vague about what an adjustment might mean, and the comments come after Turkey said it had received White House assurances that it wou...
Pakistan minister resigns as officials bow to Islamists' demands
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
Protest leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi called off the sit-in after state media reported minister Zahid Hamid's resignation early Monday. Rizvi said he had military...
Pakistan protests grow as military stays silent
Nov 26, 2017 (AFP)
An estimated 5,000 demonstrators were occupying roads between Islamabad and neighbouring Rawalpindi, AFP reporters saw, more than twice the number that were in ...
India outraged at release of Mumbai attack suspect
Nov 23, 2017 (AFP)
A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered the release of firebrand cleric Hafiz Saeed, who carries a $10 million US bounty, after Islamabad failed to back the char...
Malaysia arrests Uighur escapee from Thailand
Nov 23, 2017 (AFP)
Asri Yusoff, police chief in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah, said the fugitive was picked up near the border with Thailand's Sadoa district, where the Th...
US military opens new, but risky front in Afghan air war
Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)
The quickening tempo comes after President Donald Trump in August approved broad new powers for General John Nicholson, who commands US and NATO forces in Afgha...
Thais hunt 20 ethnic Uighurs after detention centre breakout
Nov 21, 2017 (AFP)
Police said the escapees bored through the wall of the centre in Sadao, near Thailand's southernmost border, using blankets to climb out as heavy rains masked t...
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