Wednesday, 8 June, 2016 , 08:42 AFP — A car bomb ripped through a police station on Wednesday in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey, a day after 11 people were killed in an attack in the heart of Istanbul, state-run Anatolia news agency said.

Wednesday, 8 June, 2016 , 08:33 AFP —

Wednesday, 8 June, 2016 , 07:14 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed into law a reform lifting immunity for lawmakers, his office said, in a move critics believe is aimed at evicting pro-Kurdish MPs from parliament.

Tuesday, 7 June, 2016 , 10:27 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hinted in televised remarks that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was behind a bomb attack in central Istanbul that left 11 people dead.

Monday, 6 June, 2016 , 14:15 AFP — Syrian regime troops supported by Russia and US-backed fighters pressed twin offensives against the Islamic State group Monday as pressure built on the jihadists' northern strongholds in the war-torn country.

Monday, 6 June, 2016 , 13:13 AFP — Syrian regime troops supported by Russia and US-backed fighters pressed twin offensives against the Islamic State group Monday as pressure built on the jihadists' northern strongholds in the war-torn country.

Sunday, 5 June, 2016 , 14:58 AFP — The co-leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said on Sunday he was "not afraid" of being put on trial after parliament scrapped the immunity of dozens of MPs in a hugely controversial move.

Saturday, 4 June, 2016 , 14:19 AFP — Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into the Islamic State group's bastion province Raqa Saturday, threatening to catch the jihadists in a pincer movement as US-backed Kurdish-led fighters advance from the north.

Saturday, 4 June, 2016 , 11:19 AFP — Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into the Islamic State group's bastion province Raqa Saturday, threatening to catch the jihadists in a pincer movement as US-backed Kurdish-led fighters advance from the north.

Friday, 3 June, 2016 , 15:36 AFP — The Turkish army on Friday completed a nearly three-month operation to eliminate the presence of outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in a majority-Kurdish town in the southeast.