Monday, 11 August, 2014 , 09:28 AFP — Iraqi Kurds are "being armed by various sources", a US State Department official said Monday, in the fight against Islamic State jihadists.

Monday, 11 August, 2014 , 09:26 AFP —

Monday, 11 August, 2014 , 09:16 AFP — Italy has requested a meeting of European foreign ministers on Iraq and is pushing to give Iraq's Kurds military support, the foreign minister said Monday.

Sunday, 10 August, 2014 , 20:14 AFP — France, in consultation with its EU partners, is looking at supplying arms to Iraq's Kurds to fight against Islamic State jihadists, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sunday.

Sunday, 10 August, 2014 , 19:40 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga, buoyed by US air strikes, reclaimed two towns from jihadist fighters Sunday, while Western powers ramped up efforts to save displaced civilians stranded on a mountain.

Sunday, 10 August, 2014 , 17:11 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga, buoyed by US air strikes, reclaimed two towns from jihadist fighters Sunday, while Western powers ramped up efforts to save displaced civilians stranded on a mountain.

Sunday, 10 August, 2014 , 15:47 AFP — Kurdish peshmerga troops on Sunday wrested back control of two towns from the Islamic State militants for the first time since US jets started bombing jihadist targets, officials said.

Friday, 8 August, 2014 , 23:09 AFP — A reporter working with Kurdish news agency Firat was killed Friday when jihadist fighters attacked a camp in Iraq, one of her employers said on their website.

Friday, 8 August, 2014 , 20:31 AFP — US jets struck jihadist positions in northern Iraq on Friday, in what the federal and Kurdish governments vowed would allow them to start clawing back areas lost in two months of conflict.

Friday, 8 August, 2014 , 19:38 AFP — The fighting sparked by Iraq's two-month-old jihadist offensive has left 150 Kurdish peshmerga dead and around 500 wounded, the Kurdish presidency's chief of staff said Friday.