Tuesday, 10 January, 2017 , 10:46 AFP — Turkey's pro-Kurdish party is to boycott a parliamentary vote on a controversial new draft constitution aimed at giving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers, in protest over the arrest of its MPs.

Friday, 6 January, 2017 , 17:42 AFP — A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance seized Friday an ancient fortress overlooking the Islamic State group's biggest prison near the jihadists' Raqa bastion in northern Syria, a monitor and a commander said.

Thursday, 5 January, 2017 , 15:16 AFP — Turkish authorities suspect Kurdish militants were behind the car bombing which killed two people outside a courthouse in the western city of Izmir on Thursday, the provincial governor said.

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Wednesday, 4 January, 2017 , 10:21 AFP — Kurdish security forces closed the Iraqi headquarters of an organisation that aids members of the Yazidi religious minority, which has been brutally targeted by jihadists, the group said on Wednesday.

Monday, 2 January, 2017 , 15:01 AFP — Western support for military action against the Islamic State group is key to preventing attacks at home, French President Francois Hollande said in Monday in Iraq, where yet another bombing killed dozens.

Friday, 1 January, 2016 , 18:07 AFP — Turkish police launched a massive manhunt Sunday for a gunman who killed 39 people, including many foreigners, in a rampage at an upmarket nightclub in Istanbul where revellers were celebrating New Year.

Friday, 30 December, 2016 , 19:24 AFP — Syria's Kurds have adopted a draft constitution for the autonomous federal region they unilaterally declared in the country's northeast and expect to hold elections in the coming months.

Tuesday, 27 December, 2016 , 03:41 AFP — When it opened three years ago in Turkey's biggest Kurdish-majority city, it was a symbol of Ankara's changing -- and more liberal -- attitudes toward Kurdish-language education.

Thursday, 22 December, 2016 , 13:27 AFP — Two Iraqi militias linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are recruiting child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.