Wednesday, 16 November, 2016 , 22:59 AFP — The US-led international coalition battling to defeat the Islamic State group is not backing a drive by Turkish forces and Syrian rebels to retake a jihadist stronghold in northern Syrian, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Tuesday, 15 November, 2016 , 16:01 AFP — European satellite TV operator Eutelsat has been ordered to reconnect the signal of Kurdish channel Newroz TV, one month after bowing to Turkish pressure to take it off the air.
Monday, 14 November, 2016 , 16:08 AFP — Hundreds of people, including children, returned to the devastated Kurdish-dominated city of Sirnak in southeast Turkey on Monday after an eight-month curfew was relaxed, an AFP photographer said.
Monday, 14 November, 2016 , 03:37 AFP — Turkey is heading to a referendum on granting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan new powers as early as next spring, ratcheting up tensions amid a crackdown on dissent and pro-Kurdish politicians, analysts say.
Sunday, 13 November, 2016 , 11:29 AFP — Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces are two kilometres (just over a mile) from the Islamic State group stronghold of Al-Bab as they press Ankara's Operation Euphrates Shield, a monitor said Sunday.
Sunday, 13 November, 2016 , 10:09 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces have demolished Arab homes and buildings and in some cases entire villages in disputed areas in the country's north, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.
Saturday, 12 November, 2016 , 16:07 AFP — About 25,000 Kurds and Alevis rallied in the German city of Cologne on Saturday against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after the arrest of pro-Kurdish politicians earlier this month, the DPA news agency reported.
Friday, 11 November, 2016 , 16:26 AFP — A bomb blast in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast has killed a local government official and wounded at least two other people, authorities said Friday.
Friday, 11 November, 2016 , 11:57 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces are building a berm near Mosul, a line in the sand that may mark a boundary of territory they aim to keep after recapturing it from jihadists.
Friday, 11 November, 2016 , 10:56 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish fighters are building a berm in the desert near Mosul that could demarcate a boundary of the state they hope to establish after the Islamic State group is defeated.
