Monday, 23 November, 2015 , 06:32 AFP — The prominent co-chairman of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party was targeted by an assassination attempt while travelling in his official vehicle but escaped unharmed, the party said Monday.

Monday, 23 November, 2015 , 03:17 AFP — Sahin Donmez surveys the damage to his house after almost two weeks of street battles between Kurdish militants and the Turkish security forces in the southeastern town of Silvan.

Sunday, 22 November, 2015 , 16:37 AFP — A Turkish Kurd fighter who commanded a unit battling Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria was buried Sunday in Istanbul two months after his death in clashes, amid anger over the delay in bringing his body home.

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.