Saturday, 12 March, 2016 , 12:00 AFP — Turkey's air force bombarded Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq this week, killing 67 rebel fighters, the military said Saturday, the first such strikes in nearly a month.

Saturday, 12 March, 2016 , 03:06 AFP — Syria's opposition said Friday it will attend fresh peace talks next week, stoking hopes the war-ravaged country may be able to end five years of civil war and move toward elections in 18 months.

Friday, 11 March, 2016 , 17:33 AFP — A three-year-old Iraqi girl wounded in a chemical attack by the Islamic State group died in hospital Friday, medical sources and officials said.

Friday, 11 March, 2016 , 16:03 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish region resumed pumping oil to Turkey on Friday, more than three weeks after the pipeline was closed due to Turkish military operations, senior oil company officials said.

Friday, 11 March, 2016 , 15:10 AFP — A three-year-old Iraqi girl wounded in a chemical attack by the Islamic State group died in hospital Friday, medical sources and officials said.

Friday, 11 March, 2016 , 11:40 AFP — Elections in Syria observed by the United Nations should be held in 18 months, the UN's Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said ahead of a new round of peace talks set to begin Monday.

Friday, 11 March, 2016 , 10:51 AFP — Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday urged the UN's special envoy on Syria to include Kurds in upcoming talks that aim to resolve the five-year Syrian civil war.

Friday, 11 March, 2016 , 09:45 AFP — Russia's foreign minister on Friday urged the UN's special envoy on Syria to include Kurds in upcoming talks that aim to resolve the five-year Syrian civil war.

Thursday, 10 March, 2016 , 11:17 AFP — Hundreds of protesters blocked Iraq's main highway Thursday to demand strikes against a town from which the Islamic State group launched a chemical attack.

Monday, 7 March, 2016 , 16:18 AFP — The chief of Syria's main opposition body on Monday rejected the prospect of putting in place a federal system in the war-torn country, warning that it would lead to partition.