Thursday, 3 November, 2016 , 11:40 AFP — A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arabs will lead the assault on the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa, but rejects any Turkish role, its spokesman said Thursday.
Thursday, 3 November, 2016 , 11:20 AFP — A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arabs will lead the assault on the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa, but rejects any Turkish role, its spokesman said Thursday.
Thursday, 3 November, 2016 , 11:10 AFP —
Tuesday, 1 November, 2016 , 15:37 AFP — Turkey appointed an unelected state trustee on Tuesday as the mayor of the biggest Kurdish-majority city in the southeast, the governor's office said, after arresting Diyarbakir's co-mayors last month.
Monday, 31 October, 2016 , 03:14 AFP — A Turkish court has ordered the detention of the two mayors of Diyarbakir, the largest city in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of the country, accusing them of "terrorist" activities linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Sunday, 30 October, 2016 , 17:07 AFP — Iraqi forces said Sunday that they recaptured a series of villages surrounding jihadist-held Mosul as the operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group neared its third week.
Sunday, 30 October, 2016 , 03:31 AFP — A Turkish court has barred a leader of the main pro-Kurdish party from leaving the country, accusing her of "belonging to an armed terrorist organisation," the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Saturday.
Friday, 28 October, 2016 , 09:56 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region plans to renew its push for independence once the city of Mosul is retaken from Islamic State group jihadists, its prime minister said Friday.
Thursday, 27 October, 2016 , 17:24 AFP — Turkish prosecutors launched a probe Thursday into pro-Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas after he condemned the detention of two mayors of the country's biggest Kurdish city.
Thursday, 27 October, 2016 , 03:23 AFP — Alcohol shops are open for business in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, where officials have vowed that Baghdad's recently passed ban on booze will not be enforced.
