Monday, 11 March, 2019 , 11:11 AFP — Kurdish-led forces pounded the last scrap of land held by the Islamic State group Monday, a scattering of tents and destroyed buildings in a remote eastern Syrian hamlet.

Monday, 11 March, 2019 , 08:43 AFP — pounded the last scrap of land held by the Islamic State group Monday, a scattering of tents and destroyed buildings in a remote eastern Syrian hamlet.

Wednesday, 6 March, 2019 , 09:03 AFP — Neighbours Turkey and Iran will carry out a joint operation against Kurdish rebels, state-run Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Wednesday.

Sunday, 3 March, 2019 , 08:31 AFP — Nearly 300 Syrians suspected of belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group have been freed because they have "no blood on their hands", Kurdish authorities who were holding them said.

Friday, 1 March, 2019 , 02:38 AFP — Candidates campaigning for upcoming local elections in southeastern Turkey have a serious conundrum: the villages they want to run have been largely emptied by clashes between Kurdish rebels and Turkish soldiers.

Thursday, 28 February, 2019 , 17:45 AFP — The top commander of the Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group in Syria said Thursday that the jihadists' last bastion would be crushed within about a week.

Monday, 25 February, 2019 , 11:47 AFP — Fourteen French nationals accused of fighting for the Islamic State group were transferred to Iraq by US-backed forces squeezing the jihadists' final Syrian bastion, an Iraqi government source said Monday.

Monday, 25 February, 2019 , 11:13 AFP — Fourteen French nationals accused of fighting for the Islamic State group were transferred to Iraq by US-backed forces squeezing the jihadists' final Syrian bastion, an Iraqi government source told AFP Monday.

Sunday, 24 February, 2019 , 14:07 AFP — Turkey conditionally freed Kurdish writer and artist Zehra Dogan on Sunday after more than two years in jail for "terrorist propaganda", her employer said.

Friday, 22 February, 2019 , 14:46 AFP — US-backed fighters trucked out civilians from the last speck of the Islamic State group's dying "caliphate" in Syria on Friday, eager to press on with the battle to crush the jihadists.