Friday, 16 March, 2018 , 15:17 AFP — On March 16, 1988, as many as 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces.

Friday, 16 March, 2018 , 15:07 AFP — Thousands of Iraqi Kurds clad in black and many tearful marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of the Halabja gas massacre that killed some 5,000 people.

Friday, 16 March, 2018 , 12:46 AFP — The United Nations said Friday there were "alarming reports" that Kurdish forces are blocking civilians from leaving the Syrian enclave of Afrin faced with a looming siege, and could be using them as "human shields".

Friday, 16 March, 2018 , 08:32 AFP — Turkish artillery fire on the Kurdish-majority enclave of Afrin in northern Syria killed at least 18 civilians on Friday, a monitor said.

Friday, 16 March, 2018 , 08:12 AFP — Turkish artillery fire on the Kurdish-majority enclave of Afrin in northern Syria killed at least 18 civilians on Friday, a monitor said.

Thursday, 15 March, 2018 , 11:32 AFP — Turkey on Thursday said it would oust Kurdish militia from the centre of Afrin in northern Syria "in a very short time", as pro-Ankara forces surrounded the city.

Thursday, 15 March, 2018 , 10:28 AFP — A prominent lawyer involved in a deal that saw some Islamic State jihadists given safe passage out of their Syrian bastion Raqa last year was found dead on Thursday, authorities said.

Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 19:39 AFP — Turkey turned up the heat on Syria's Afrin Wednesday, as pro-Ankara forces bombarded the Kurdish enclave and closed in on its main city.

Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 17:51 AFP — Turkey turned up the heat on Syria's Afrin Wednesday, launching deadly strikes on Damascus loyalists deployed around the Kurdish enclave and closing in on its main city.

Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 15:00 AFP — Turkey turned up the heat on Syria's Afrin Wednesday, launching deadly strikes on Damascus loyalists deployed around the Kurdish enclave and closing in on its main city.