Voice of America
| May 8, 2013
A line drawn by the British in the 19th century through Pashtun lands is at the heart of recent clashes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan boder. The Afghans have never recognized the Durand Line and Pakistan fears that Kabul aims to reunite the troub...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 16, 2013
A massive 7.8 earthquake has struck a sparsely populated area in southeastern Iran near the border with Pakistan, reportedly killing at least 40 people in Iran and some five in Pakistan, though the toll is expected to climb. The epicenter of the q...
Vice
| Apr 6, 2013
West African truck drivers spend days, weeks, and sometimes months dealing with border officials and illegal checkpoints on harrowing delivery trips that should take just a few hours. Is there any room for change in a system riddled with unchecked...
Vice
| Mar 31, 2013
When traveling from Central America to the United States through Mexico, immigrants are forced to battle drug cartels, corrupt police officers, and human traffickers, all before they even come close to the US border. People tend to assume that ...
Euronews
| Mar 28, 2013
Get soldiers to action stations but keep the border factories running. These are North Korea's priorities as the Stalinist state threatens to launch war on all enemies within reach. The factories it operates in the Kaesong Industrial Park joint ve...
Euronews
| Nov 13, 2012
A second day of air strikes on Syrian towns near the Turkish border is continuing to cause chaos. Some refugees can be seen squeezing under barbed wire fences to enter Turkey. Medical workers and refugees in Ceylanpinar say bombs have fallen on re...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 9, 2012
Turkey has confirmed it is deploying more fighter jets to an airbase close to the border with Syria, amid artillery exchanges along its tense southeastern border with Syria.
The announcement came amid reports of fierce fighting in the northern Id...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 4, 2012
Turkey's parliament has given its military a mandate to move into Syria if deemed necessary for national security. The action follows the deaths of five Turkish civilians when a Turkish artillery shell exploded in their village. The southeastern ...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 3, 2012
At least five people, including four children, have been killed when a mortar fired from Syria hit southeastern Turkey. The mayor of Akcakale told television reporters that Wednesday's blast left another nine people seriously wounded. Anders Fog...
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...West Bank, Palestinians fired two rockets from Gaza into a southern Israeli city, causing damage but no injuries. The attack prompted Israel to ...
— Apr 25 at 04:06 am
...about al-Qaeda affiliates,” a top State Department official told CNN. These include Cubans, Iranians, Sudanese, and Syrians whose governments ar...
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