Monday, 21 December, 2015 , 17:50 AFP — The Turkish army on Monday engaged in intense clashes with Kurdish militants as the military pressed on with one of its biggest recent domestic operations and controversial curfew orders were expanded to a new area in the Kurdish-dominated southeast.

Monday, 21 December, 2015 , 10:34 AFP — The leader of Turkey's opposition pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples' Party (HDP) will meet Wednesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow for talks aimed at reducing tensions after the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkish forces, the party said Monday.

Sunday, 20 December, 2015 , 16:12 AFP — The number of Kurdish rebels killed in a massive Turkish military offensive in the restive southeast has jumped to 102, a security source told AFP on Sunday, as the operation entered its fifth day.

Sunday, 20 December, 2015 , 13:56 AFP — The number of Kurdish rebels killed in a massive Turkish military offensive in the restive southeast has jumped to 102, a security source told AFP on Sunday, as the operation entered its fifth day.

Sunday, 20 December, 2015 , 11:28 AFP — The number of Kurdish rebels killed in a massive huge Turkish military offensive in the restive southeast has jumped to 102, a security source told AFP on Sunday, as the operation entered its fifth day.

Sunday, 20 December, 2015 , 08:13 AFP — The number of Kurdish rebels killed during a huge Turkish military offensive in the country's restive southeast has jumped to 102, a security source told AFP Sunday as the operation entered its fifth day.

Saturday, 19 December, 2015 , 18:28 AFP — A UN-backed roadmap to end the Syrian war was met with scepticism Saturday by members of the country's fractured opposition who insist President Bashar al-Assad must go to achieve peace.

Saturday, 19 December, 2015 , 17:40 AFP — Seventy suspected members of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in a vast operation against the group in the mainly Kurdish southeast over the past four days, the army said Saturday.

Saturday, 19 December, 2015 , 13:19 AFP — Seventy suspected members of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in a vast operation against the group in the mainly Kurdish southeast over the past four days, the army said Saturday.

Friday, 18 December, 2015 , 18:38 AFP — Some 200 Islamic State jihadists were killed by US-led coalition aircraft during an intense battle in Iraq this week, a US military spokesman said Friday.