Tuesday, 28 October, 2014 , 12:10 AFP — More than 150 Kurdish peshmerga fighters left a base in northern Iraq on Tuesday headed for the battleground Syrian town of Kobane, an AFP journalist reported.

Tuesday, 28 October, 2014 , 11:56 AFP —

Tuesday, 28 October, 2014 , 11:56 AFP — Turkey on Tuesday said there was no problem for Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross its territory into Syria and the peshmerga could now make the much-awaited move at "any moment".

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.