Tuesday, 8 November, 2016 , 10:29 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from the Islamic State group, an official said Tuesday, as US-backed militia forces advanced on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa.

Tuesday, 8 November, 2016 , 09:40 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces have retaken the town of Bashiqa, one of the last areas east of Mosul to be held by the Islamic State group, a top security official said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 8 November, 2016 , 09:13 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces have retaken Bashiqa, one of the last towns east of Mosul to be held by the Islamic State group, a top security official said on Tuesday.

Monday, 7 November, 2016 , 19:18 AFP — Outside the newly conquered village of Abu Ilaj on the road to Raqa in Syria, anti-jihadist fighters dig trenches with bulldozers to prevent a surprise Islamic State group attack.

Monday, 7 November, 2016 , 16:47 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces said Monday that they had advanced into an Islamic State group-held town near Mosul and were moving from house to house clearing it.

Monday, 7 November, 2016 , 15:43 AFP — Turkey on Monday slammed EU criticism of its crackdown following the July 15 coup bid and warned relations were increasingly fragile as the bloc crafts a report on its stalled membership bid.

Monday, 7 November, 2016 , 12:20 AFP — The Syrian Al-Watan newspaper, which is close to the government, on Monday dismissed a new assault on the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold of Raqa as a "media" operation.

Monday, 7 November, 2016 , 11:32 AFP — Turkey on Monday warned the United States not to allow demographic changes in the Syrian city of Raqa after Kurdish-Arab forces launched a US-backed operation to capture the jihadist bastion.

Monday, 7 November, 2016 , 11:14 AFP — Turkey protested to EU envoys and branded relations with Brussels as "fragile" on Monday over the bloc's criticism of its crackdown in the wake of the July 15 coup.

Monday, 7 November, 2016 , 10:26 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces on Monday launched an assault on a jihadist-held town near the northern city of Mosul, close to the site of a controversial Turkish military deployment, a commander said.