Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 , 12:44 AFP — Turkey pressed on with its "war on terror" on Tuesday, just five days before a pivotal election, detaining dozens of Islamic State suspects in massive police raids and hitting Kurdish rebels across the border in Syria.

Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 , 10:46 AFP — Selahattin Demirtas shared a cup of tea at dawn on Sunday with a few workers on a Turkish building site, joined students for a simple omelette at noon and then made a speech to just a few hundred party members in a dimly-lit Istanbul conference room.

Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 , 10:30 AFP — Turkey pressed on with its "war on terror" on Tuesday, just five days before the country goes to the polls, detaining dozens of Islamic State suspects in massive police raids and hitting Kurdish rebels across the border in Syria.

Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 , 08:39 AFP — Turkey pressed on with its "war on terror" on Tuesday, just five days before the country goes to the polls, detaining dozens of Islamic State suspects and hitting Kurdish rebels across the border in Syria.

Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 , 07:25 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said the military has struck Kurdish fighters across the border in northern Syria "twice".

Monday, 26 October, 2015 , 15:43 AFP — Iraq's Kurds on Monday released fresh video of freed hostages speaking about torture inside a jihadist-run prison raided last week in a joint Kurdish-US operation.

Monday, 26 October, 2015 , 12:21 AFP — Kurdish fighters in northern Syria have accused the Turkish military of attacking their positions near a border town at the weekend.

Sunday, 25 October, 2015 , 15:57 AFP — The government of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday released footage it said was of the brazen commando operation it carried out with elite US troops at a jihadist-run prison.

Thursday, 22 October, 2015 , 04:22 AFP — Curfews, street barricades and armed police everywhere: the unrest in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast is likely to have an impact on the upcoming election but it also risks spelling a defeat for democracy.

Wednesday, 21 October, 2015 , 16:02 AFP — Leaders from Syria's Kurdish community on Wednesday held talks in Moscow with Russia's deputy foreign minister over the conflict in the war-torn nation.