Sunday, 22 February, 2015 , 12:40 AFP — A Swedish journalist has been freed from captivity in Syria after a week-long detention by Syrian government forces, local media reported Sunday.
Sunday, 22 February, 2015 , 11:24 AFP — The Islamic State jihadist group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages.
Thursday, 19 February, 2015 , 16:49 AFP — Syrian Kurdish and rebel forces, backed by US-led air strikes, advanced on Thursday into Raqa province, where the jihadist Islamic State group has its de facto capital, a monitor said.
Wednesday, 18 February, 2015 , 15:28 AFP — UN experts on Wednesday joined a chorus of calls for Tehran to halt plans to execute a young Iranian Kurdish man who was sentenced to death over a crime he committed as a minor.
Wednesday, 18 February, 2015 , 11:42 AFP — Kurdish peshmerga forces have repulsed a major attack by the Islamic State jihadist group southwest of Iraqi Kurdistan's capital Arbil, officials said Wednesday.
Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 , 22:10 AFP — International human rights groups appealed to Tehran Tuesday to halt its planned execution of a young Iranian Kurdish man who was sentenced to death over a crime he committed as a minor.
Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 , 20:23 AFP — International human rights groups appealed to Tehran Tuesday to halt its planned execution of a young Iranian Kurdish man who was sentenced to death as a minor after allegedly being tortured.
Monday, 16 February, 2015 , 19:49 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish premier Nechirvan Barzani on Monday accused the Baghdad government of failing to give his autonomous Kurdish region its share of oil revenues despite a deal signed in December.
Sunday, 15 February, 2015 , 18:42 AFP — At least 35 Islamic State jihadists were killed on Sunday in clashes with Syrian Kurdish fighters around the flashpoint town of Kobane, a monitor said.
Wednesday, 11 February, 2015 , 13:26 AFP — Meet Nassrin Abdallah. With her diminutive height and broad smile, it doesn't seem like she should strike fear into the hearts of hardened Islamic State jihadists.
