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Afghan forces repel Taliban assault on Kunduz city
Oct 03, 2016 (AFP)
Explosions echoed across Kunduz as Afghan commandos drove back a Taliban assault on Monday, forcing residents to shelter in their homes, a year after militants ...
Pakistan impregnable, military insists after Kashmir 'raid'
Oct 02, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistani military officials point to an Indian army post high on a forested ridge along the Line of Control dividing Kashmir, insisting any incursions are impo...
India-Pakistan tensions stir villagers' wartime memories
Oct 01, 2016 (AFP)
As he surveyed his largely deserted village along India's border with Pakistan, Kuldeep Singh cast his mind to his childhood when his home was on the frontline ...
India evacuates border villages after strikes on Pakistan
Sep 30, 2016 (AFP)
India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on Friday, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kas...
UN chief offers to mediate over Kashmir tensions
Sep 30, 2016 (AFP)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday offered to act as mediator between India and Pakistan to defuse rising tensions over disputed Kashmir. The offer came...
Pakistan fury after India launches Kashmir strikes
Sep 29, 2016 (AFP)
Indian commandos carried out a series of lightning strikes Thursday along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir, provoking furious charges of "naked aggr...
India pulls out of summit as tensions with Pakistan mount
Sep 27, 2016 (AFP)
India on Tuesday pulled out of a key regional summit in Pakistan citing an increase in cross-border terrorist attacks, as tension between the nuclear-armed neig...
Russia, Pakistan to carry out first joint military exercise
Sep 23, 2016 (AFP)
Russia and Pakistan will carry out their first joint military exercise this weekend, the Pakistani military said Friday, at a time of heightened tensions betwee...
Erdogan says US arming Syrian Kurdish militia
Sep 23, 2016 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of sending more weapons to a Syrian Kurdish militia in defiance of Ankara's repeated insistence...
Pentagon weighs arming Syrian Kurds ahead of Raqa fight
Sep 22, 2016 (AFP)
Washington is considering arming Syrian Kurdish forces who will join the offensive to retake the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa, the US military's top...
India's Modi thrashes out response to deadly Kashmir raid
Sep 19, 2016 (AFP)
India's prime minister on Monday summoned top security advisers to thrash out a response to a deadly raid on a Kashmir army base blamed on militants from Pakist...
Afghanistan close to peace deal with notorious warlord
Sep 12, 2016 (AFP)
Afghanistan is close to signing a peace agreement with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, President Ashraf Ghani said Monday, in a landmark accord that could pave the way for...
Afghan forces mount offensive around besieged southern city
Sep 11, 2016 (AFP)
Afghan forces backed by air strikes mounted a new offensive to flush out Taliban insurgents encircling the capital of southern Uruzgan province, officials said ...
Afghanistan: Taliban offensives since 2015
Sep 08, 2016 (AFP)
From the spectacular attack on Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, to the assault on Tarin Kot in the south, here is a recap of Taliban offensives since September ...
Kyrgyzstan blames Chinese embassy attack on Uighur jihadists
Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday blamed Uighur jihadists in Syria for masterminding a suicide attack against the Chinese embassy in the Central Asian countr...
Putin heading to Uzbekistan to honour deceased strongman
Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit ex-Soviet Uzbekistan Tuesday to pay his respects at the grave of strongman leader Islam Karimov, who was buried over...
Turkish jets destroy Kurdish rebel targets: state media
Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)
Turkish warplanes have destroyed 10 Kurdish rebel positions in the restive southeast as Ankara steps up its fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party ...
Turkish jets destroy Kurdish rebel, IS targets
Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)
Ankara stepped up its fight against militants in Turkey and northern Syria with air strikes on Kurdish rebel positions in the restive southeast and IS extremist...
Three hurt in suicide blast at China's Kyrgyzstan embassy
Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)
A van driven by a suicide bomber exploded after ramming through a gate at the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday, injuring three people, authorities said....
Pakistan judges deny civilian appeals against military courts
Aug 29, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistan's top judges on Monday upheld the verdicts and death sentences passed on 16 civilians who were tried on terrorism charges by the country's military cou...
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