Sunday, 27 March, 2016 , 09:42 AFP — Thousands of desperate civilians were fleeing fighting Sunday on the new front opened by Iraqi forces against the Islamic State group south of the city of Mosul.

Friday, 25 March, 2016 , 08:16 AFP — Three military police were killed and 22 injured in a car bombing on a barracks in Turkey's restive southeast suspected to be the work of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), security sources said Friday.

Monday, 21 March, 2016 , 14:50 AFP — A Syrian Kurd representative defended Monday the proclamation of a Kurdish federal region in northern Syria, saying it was not meant to be autonomous and only for Kurds.

Monday, 21 March, 2016 , 11:28 AFP — The Arab League on Monday rejected Kurdish-led moves for a federal system of government in Syria, charging that they would lead to the break-up of the war-torn country.

Monday, 21 March, 2016 , 10:53 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday questioned the EU's "sincerity" in its support for Turkey's fight against rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Sunday, 20 March, 2016 , 17:53 AFP — Turkish police on Sunday fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of people attending Kurdish New Year celebrations in Istanbul in defiance of a ban on gatherings following a string of terror attacks.

Saturday, 19 March, 2016 , 10:28 AFP — A Turkish court detained five people overnight on suspicion of links to a March 13 suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 35, the Anatolia news agency reported on Saturday.

Friday, 18 March, 2016 , 19:49 AFP — Two more children have died of wounds suffered in a suspected jihadist chemical attack last week in Iraq, an official said on Friday, raising the death toll to three.

Friday, 18 March, 2016 , 18:51 AFP — Two more children have died of wounds sustained in a suspected jihadist chemical attack last week in Iraq, a local official said Friday, raising the death toll to three.

Friday, 18 March, 2016 , 18:37 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused Europe of "surrendering to terror" for allowing displays of support for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), days after a bombing in Ankara claimed by Kurdish rebels.