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Kurdish festival goes on in Turkey's southeast despite shooting


Tuesday, 21 March, 2017 , 13:41 AFP Tens of thousands of people celebrated the New Year festival of Newroz in Turkey's overwhelmingly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Tuesday, even as police killed a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb.

Strikes pound east Damascus after rebel assault


Monday, 20 March, 2017 , 19:38 AFP Syrian government forces clashed with rebels and hammered opposition-held areas of east Damascus on Monday, before calm returned to the capital after a surprise assault.

Syria Kurds say will get training from Russian forces


Monday, 20 March, 2017 , 19:03 AFP Russia's military will train Kurdish forces in Syria, the militia's spokesman said Monday, in Moscow's first agreement of its kind with the group that controls large parts of the country's north.

Strikes pound east Damascus after rebel assault


Monday, 20 March, 2017 , 18:07 AFP Syrian government forces clashed with rebels and hammered opposition-held areas of east Damascus on Monday, before calm returned to the capital after a surprise assault.

Syria Kurds say will get training from Russian forces


Monday, 20 March, 2017 , 16:18 AFP Russia's military will train Kurdish forces in Syria, the militia's spokesman said Monday, in Moscow's first agreement of its kind with the group that controls large parts of the country's north.

Syria Kurds say will get training from Russian forces


Monday, 20 March, 2017 , 15:42 AFP Russia's military will train Kurdish forces in Syria, a spokesman said Monday, in the first agreement of its kind with the militia that controls large parts of the country's north.

Syria Kurds say will receive training from Russian forces


Monday, 20 March, 2017 , 15:06 AFP Russian forces have agreed to train a Syrian Kurdish militia in the war-torn country's north, a spokesman for the People's Protection Units (YPG) told AFP Monday.

Syria Kurds say will receive training from Russian forces


Monday, 20 March, 2017 , 14:52 AFP

Turkey summons German envoy over 'pro-PKK rally scandal'


Sunday, 19 March, 2017 , 11:25 AFP Turkey summoned Germany's ambassador to express its fury over a Frankfurt rally where protesters brandished insignia of outlawed Kurdish militants, the presidential spokesman said Sunday, denouncing it as a "scandal".

Turkey furious as Kurds rally in Frankfurt with PKK insignia


Saturday, 18 March, 2017 , 20:11 AFP Some 30,000 pro-Kurdish demonstrators rallied in the German city of Frankfurt on Saturday calling for "democracy in Turkey" and urging a "no" vote in an upcoming referendum on expanding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.