Wednesday, 21 January, 2015 , 15:43 AFP — RKurdish security forces launched an offensive on the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Iraq Wednesday, backed by US-led air strikes, and retook villages the jihadists used to launch attacks, officials said.

Monday, 19 January, 2015 , 10:47 AFP — Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria's Kobane have captured a strategic hilltop, giving them line of fire over the town, a monitor said Monday.

Sunday, 18 January, 2015 , 13:18 AFP — At least 18 people have been killed in unprecedented fighting between Kurdish forces and Syrian government troops in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, a monitoring group said Sunday.

Sunday, 18 January, 2015 , 12:10 AFP — Once poised to overrun the Syrian town of Kobane, the Islamic State group has suffered a damaging blow to its ambitions at the hands of Kurdish fighters and US-led warplanes.

Saturday, 17 January, 2015 , 15:46 AFP — Syrian regime forces battled Kurdish fighters in the eastern city of Hasakeh for the first time Saturday, leaving at least six people dead, a monitoring group said.

Friday, 16 January, 2015 , 16:22 AFP — The jihadist Islamic State group on Friday launched a fierce new attack against Syrian Kurdish fighters in Kobane, four months into a battle for the flashpoint town on Turkey's border, a monitoring group said.

Friday, 16 January, 2015 , 15:05 AFP — The jihadist Islamic State group on Friday launched a fierce new attack against Syrian Kurdish fighters in Kobane, four months into a battle for the flashpoint town on Turkey's border, a monitoring group said.

Thursday, 15 January, 2015 , 15:21 AFP — Thousands of mourners on Thursday buried a 12-year-old Kurdish boy who activists say was killed by Turkish security forces, a claim vehemently denied by the government.

Sunday, 11 January, 2015 , 13:58 AFP — Turkey on Sunday unexpectedly renamed its six-year-old state television channel broadcasting in the Kurdish language as "TRT Kurdish", in an unprecedented move that would once have been unthinkable.

Saturday, 10 January, 2015 , 18:29 AFP — Militants from the Islamic State jihadist group launched a surprise attack on Kurdish forces in the Gwer area of north Iraq, killing 26, security officials said Saturday.