Saturday, 21 November, 2015 , 14:19 AFP — Turkish warplanes have carried out a new wave of air strikes on northern Iraq in the latest assault against suspected targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the army said Saturday.

Friday, 20 November, 2015 , 21:58 AFP — A lawmaker from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party who was elected to parliament this month was sentenced Friday to six-and-a-half years in jail for membership of a "terrorist organisation," local media said.

Monday, 16 November, 2015 , 16:36 AFP — An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic State group in northeast Syria has driven the jihadists out of nearly 200 villages, its spokesman told reporters on Monday.

Monday, 16 November, 2015 , 13:08 AFP — Turkish warplanes carried out a new wave of air strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeast, killing 13 rebels overnight, the army said Monday.

Saturday, 14 November, 2015 , 17:13 AFP — A mass grave believed to hold the bodies of dozens of women executed by the Islamic State group was found Saturday in Iraq's Sinjar, where Kurdish forces are clearing bombs the jihadists left.

Saturday, 14 November, 2015 , 14:59 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces were working to clear bombs planted by the Islamic State group in Sinjar, where a grave believed to hold dozens of the jihadists' victims was found Saturday.

Saturday, 14 November, 2015 , 14:19 AFP — Turkish authorities lifted a punishing curfew on Saturday in the flashpoint southeastern town of Silvan, where Kurdish activists and security forces had clashed.

Saturday, 14 November, 2015 , 10:47 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces worked on Saturday to clear bombs from Sinjar a day after they captured the town from the jihadist Islamic State group.

Saturday, 14 November, 2015 , 02:54 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani announced the "liberation" of the town of Sinjar from the Islamic State group on Friday, the latest in a series of setbacks for the jihadists.

Friday, 13 November, 2015 , 19:13 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani announced the "liberation" of the town of Sinjar from the Islamic State group on Friday, the latest in a series of setbacks for the jihadists.