Thursday, 7 December, 2017 , 08:46 AFP — The co-leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party went on trial in Ankara Thursday on charges of links to outlawed Kurdish militants, after over a year behind bars in a case supporters say is politically motivated, his party said.

Thursday, 7 December, 2017 , 08:34 AFP —

Thursday, 7 December, 2017 , 02:05 AFP — Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party leader goes on trial in Ankara on Thursday over alleged links to Kurdish militants, after spending more than a year behind bars in a case his supporters say is politically motivated.

Wednesday, 6 December, 2017 , 18:19 AFP — A car bomb Wednesday caused deaths in a Kurdish area of Iraq's northern Nineveh province, home to Kurds from Turkey who moved there three decades ago, a party official said.

Wednesday, 6 December, 2017 , 17:47 AFP —

Monday, 4 December, 2017 , 19:24 AFP — Russia's defence ministry said Monday its planes made hundreds of sorties in support of Kurdish and local militias in eastern Syria, predicting that the whole area will soon be free of jihadist fighters.

Sunday, 3 December, 2017 , 15:26 AFP — Around half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday.

Sunday, 3 December, 2017 , 14:06 AFP — A powerful Syrian Kurdish militia announced on Sunday it had cleared Islamic State group fighters from key territory east of the winding Euphrates River.

Saturday, 2 December, 2017 , 20:10 AFP — French President Emmanuel Macron called Saturday for a rapid opening of dialogue between Iraq's central government and Iraqi Kurdish leaders and for "all militias" to be dismantled to ease tensions.

Friday, 1 December, 2017 , 16:25 AFP — Residents of Kurdish-dominated areas in northern Syria voted Friday in local polls aimed at boosting their region's de facto semi-autonomous status acquired on the back of the country's ongoing war.