Monday, 18 March, 2019 , 09:17 AFP — Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in rare clashes Sunday with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the north of the country where the group has bases, the army said overnight.
Saturday, 16 March, 2019 , 16:20 AFP — Hundreds of Kurds gathered in the Iraqi town of Halabja on Saturday in a tearful ceremony commemorating Saddam Hussein's poison gas attack there which killed some 5,000 people, mostly women and children.
Saturday, 16 March, 2019 , 10:26 AFP — US-backed forces battled Islamic State group fighters overnight as the jihadists Saturday clung onto their crumbling bastion in eastern Syria.
Monday, 11 March, 2019 , 17:52 AFP — Kurdish-led forces on Monday pounded the last scrap of land held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria after hundreds more people surrendered.
Monday, 11 March, 2019 , 14:41 AFP — Kurdish-led forces Monday slowed an assault to retake a last scrap of land held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria after hundreds more people surrendered.
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.
