Sunday, 23 October, 2016 , 08:41 AFP — US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter arrived in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Sunday to review the ongoing military offensive to retake the jihadist bastion of Mosul.
Sunday, 23 October, 2016 , 08:21 AFP — On a dusty road in northeast Syria, a woman and her four children stand beside a freshly erected green sign for Joldara, the Kurdish name of her village known for decades as Shajra.
Saturday, 22 October, 2016 , 13:56 AFP — Turkey hit Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria for the second time in less than 72 hours, the military said Saturday, as Ankara vowed further action.
Saturday, 22 October, 2016 , 08:38 AFP — Turkey hit Syrian Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria for the second time in less than 72 hours, the military said Saturday, quoted in state media.
Friday, 21 October, 2016 , 17:31 AFP — The blown off roofs of warehouses and a damaged shopping centre bore witness Friday to the fight in the northern town of Bartalla between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group.
Thursday, 20 October, 2016 , 15:36 AFP — Turkish warplanes carried out deadly strikes on US-backed militias in northern Syria, including Syrian Kurdish fighters, a monitor said Thursday, action that is likely to raise tensions between the NATO allies.
Thursday, 20 October, 2016 , 15:20 AFP — Kurdish forces launched a major assault Thursday on a town held by the Islamic State group near Mosul, opening a new front in the offensive to wrest back the jihadists' last Iraqi bastion.
Thursday, 20 October, 2016 , 12:01 AFP — Omran Lass is willing to die to liberate his Iraqi Kurdish town from the Islamic State group, but he and hundreds of fellow peshmerga fighters are having trouble finding anyone to fight.
Thursday, 20 October, 2016 , 11:43 AFP — Kurdish forces launched a major assault Thursday on a town held by the Islamic State group near Mosul, opening a new front in the offensive to wrest back the jihadists' last Iraqi bastion.
Thursday, 20 October, 2016 , 09:52 AFP — Turkish warplanes have carried out deadly strikes on US-backed militias in northern Syria, including Syrian Kurdish fighters, a monitor said Thursday, action that is likely to raise tensions between the NATO allies.