Sunday, 11 December, 2016 , 15:20 AFP — A Kurdish militant group on Sunday claimed responsibility for twin attacks that ripped through the heart of Istanbul, killing 38 people, mostly police.

Sunday, 11 December, 2016 , 15:02 AFP — A Kurdish militant group on Sunday claimed responsibility for twin attacks that ripped through the heart of Istanbul, killing 38 people, most of them police, a news agency reported.

Sunday, 11 December, 2016 , 14:51 AFP —

Sunday, 11 December, 2016 , 09:48 AFP — An initial probe into twin Istanbul bombings that left at least 38 people dead points to Kurdish militants, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Sunday.

Thursday, 8 December, 2016 , 22:00 AFP — The US military is working to ease simmering tensions between Syrian Kurdish rebels and Turkey, both fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria, US defense officials said Thursday.

Tuesday, 6 December, 2016 , 00:08 AFP — Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Turkey to compensate and allow 24,000 people displaced under a curfew to return to their districts of the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir.

Sunday, 4 December, 2016 , 09:10 AFP — Kurdish restrictions on the movement of goods are harming the recovery of Iraq's Yazidi minority, which was targeted for genocide by the Islamic State group, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.

Friday, 2 December, 2016 , 13:09 AFP — A journalist has been found shot dead in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, police and political party officials said Friday.

Thursday, 1 December, 2016 , 19:42 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish authorities in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah arrested 13 teachers on Thursday, police said, ahead of a demonstration over unpaid public sector salaries.

Thursday, 1 December, 2016 , 17:27 AFP — A total of 1,600 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed since the Islamic State group took over large parts of the country in June 2014, peshmerga officials said Thursday.