Tuesday, 28 October, 2014 , 10:36 AFP — Turkey wants the anti-Damascus Free Syrian Army (FSA) to control the Syrian border town of Kobane if Islamist jihadists are defeated, and not the forces of separatist Kurds or President Bashar al-Assad, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Monday, 27 October, 2014 , 16:21 AFP — Militants from Turkey's separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Monday hijacked a truck, seizing 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds) of the explosive substance ammonium nitrate, the Turkish army said.

Monday, 27 October, 2014 , 12:21 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces are ready to depart for Syria to aid the embattled town of Kobane but are being held up by neighbouring Turkey, a senior official said Monday.

Monday, 27 October, 2014 , 04:18 AFP — Kurdish forces have thwarted a new attempt by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 17:44 AFP — Turkey on Sunday arrested five people over the killing of three off-duty soldiers in the Kurdish-majority southeast of the country in an attack blamed on separatist militants, reports said.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 16:38 AFP — Kurdish forces thwarted a new attempt Sunday by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 15:28 AFP — A Turkish village guard who disappeared last month was killed by Kurdish separatists who shot him against a post in an execution-style killing, the army said Sunday.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 15:04 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the main Kurdish party in Syria of not wanting Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq to help it fight Islamic State jihadists trying to overrun the town of Kobane, reports said Sunday.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 13:44 AFP — Turkey on Sunday arrested five people over the killing of three off-duty soldiers in the Kurdish-majority southeast of the country blamed by the authorities on separatist militants, the official Anatolia news agency.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 13:44 AFP — Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane thwarted a new attempt by fighters from the Islamic State group Sunday to cut off the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy.