Monday, 9 February, 2015 , 17:33 AFP — Kurdish forces backed up by US-led air strikes have recaptured territory from Islamic State jihadists near the strategic city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the American military said Monday.
Sunday, 8 February, 2015 , 12:02 AFP — Syrian Kurdish forces have recaptured more than a third of the villages around Kobane from the Islamic State group since routing the jihadists from the town a fortnight ago, a monitor said Sunday.
Friday, 6 February, 2015 , 13:06 AFP — Syrian Kurdish fighters have seized dozens of villages from Islamic State group jihadists around the town of Kobane on the Turkish border, expanding their control in the area, a monitor said Friday.
Wednesday, 4 February, 2015 , 17:01 AFP — Syrian Kurdish forces made fresh advances Wednesday near the flashpoint town of Kobane, bringing the number of villages they have recaptured from the Islamic State group to 50, a monitor said.
Wednesday, 4 February, 2015 , 12:41 AFP — Syrian Kurdish fighters in the battleground town of Kobane commemorated Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh as a "martyr" after his brutal execution by their jihadist foes, an activist said Wednesday.
Wednesday, 4 February, 2015 , 12:21 AFP — Nearly 1,000 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed battling the Islamic State jihadist group since June, a senior security official said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, 4 February, 2015 , 12:05 AFP — Nearly 1,000 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed fighting the Islamic State jihadist group since June, a senior security official said on Wednesday.
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Monday, 2 February, 2015 , 18:54 AFP — Turkish prosecutors on Monday formally charged a Dutch journalist with "terrorist propaganda" and called for her to be jailed for up to five years, local media reported.
Sunday, 1 February, 2015 , 14:30 AFP — The bodies of nine Islamic State fighters lie on the roadside in the village of Khamlici south of Kobane, the strategic Syrian town recaptured from the jihadists a week ago.
