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Three soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Turkey: sources


Friday, 22 April, 2016 , 08:58 AFP Three Turkish soldiers were killed and others wounded Friday by a roadside bomb in the Kurdish majority southeast of the country, medical and military sources told AFP.

50 regime forces surrender to Kurds in northeast Syria


Thursday, 21 April, 2016 , 14:05 AFP Fifty Syrian pro-government fighters surrendered Thursday to Kurdish forces in the northeastern city of Qamishli, a Kurdish security source said as fighting raged for the second consecutive day.

Syria Kurds train new army to protect 'federal region'


Thursday, 21 April, 2016 , 11:44 AFP In a leafy field in Syria, fighters in beige fatigues negotiate an obstacle course as they are trained to defend a Kurdish federal region across the country's north.

UN begins major evacuation of Syria wounded as peace talks fray


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.

Senior IS figure in Iraq targeted in US-led raid


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.

Kurds, regime in deadly clashes in northeast Syria


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.

US forces lead anti-IS raid in northern Iraq


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.

Turkey boosts push to strip pro-Kurd deputies of immunity


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".

Merkel stresses value of free speech in Erdogan satire spat


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.

Two Turkish soldiers killed, dozens wounded in bombing


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.