Wednesday, 20 April, 2016 , 19:41 AFP — The UN began evacuating hundreds of wounded people from besieged Syrian towns Wednesday in a rare sign of humanitarian progress amid faltered peace talks and a fraying ceasefire.

Wednesday, 20 April, 2016 , 18:25 AFP — A senior Islamic State figure in Iraq has been targeted in a US-led commando raid, the Pentagon said Wednesday, as Kurdish officials claimed he had been killed.

Wednesday, 20 April, 2016 , 18:10 AFP — Deadly clashes between Syrian pro-government fighters and Kurdish forces raged on Wednesday in the northeastern city of Qamishli, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Wednesday, 20 April, 2016 , 17:01 AFP — US forces have conducted a raid on a senior Islamic State figure in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday, the latest such assault by specialist commandos on a mission to kill or capture IS leaders.

Friday, 15 April, 2016 , 13:54 AFP — Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on two opposition parties Friday to back his push to alter Turkey's constitution, to allow prosecutions of pro-Kurdish lawmakers accused of "terrorist propaganda".

Tuesday, 12 April, 2016 , 14:46 AFP — Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday spoke about the importance of free speech as Berlin weighs a Turkish request to prosecute a German TV satirist who crudely insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Tuesday, 12 April, 2016 , 10:11 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and more than 50 people wounded when a car bomb exploded at a military post in Turkey's restive Kurdish-dominated southeast, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 12 April, 2016 , 09:14 AFP — A car bomb exploded at a military post in Turkey's restive Kurdish-dominated southeast, killing two soldiers and wounding nearly 50 people, a military source said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 12 April, 2016 , 06:50 AFP — A car bomb exploded at a military post in Turkey's restive Kurdish-dominated southeast, killing a soldier and wounding nearly 50 people, a military source said on Tuesday.

Sunday, 10 April, 2016 , 17:28 AFP — Iraqi Shiite paramilitary forces have launched an operation to retake a town from which the Islamic State group launched a chemical weapons attack that killed three children, commanders said Sunday.