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As the assault got underway, a Reuters correspondent saw helicopters overhead releasing flares and heard explosions on the city's eastern front, where Kurdish fighters moved forward to take outlying villages.
Turkey's government sees the unrest in its southeast as closely tied to the war in Syria, where a Kurdish militia has seized territory along the Turkish border as it battles Islamic State militants and rebels ...
Peshmerga forces are winning major victories in the fight against IS militants.
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Military trucks were spotted departing from the base northeast of Kurdish regional capital Arbil, presumably headed toward the Syrian battleground Kobane.
The U.S.-led coalition is focusing on pounding Islamic State strongholds with air strikes in a Syrian border city to prevent it from falling to the militants.
Washington (AFP) — The United States said Tuesday it was “horrific” watching in real time the battle for the Syrian border town of Kobane, insisting it did not want to see the city fall to ...
Even with accurate air strikes and Kurdish fighters battling against IS jihadists, the Pentagon warns that there will be "no quick and easy end to the fighting."
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times The number of Syrians fleeing from Islamist militants and entering into Turkey in recent days has exceeded 130,000, making the flight one of the largest refugee flows to ...
By Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Foreign Staff BERLIN — Two months after the Islamic State laid claim to much of Iraq, European nations are reacting, driven in part by the fact that there are already thousands of ...
Dohuk (Iraq) (AFP) – Time was running out for starving Yazidis trapped on an Iraqi mountain Wednesday as the West ramped up efforts to assist survivors and arm Kurdish forces battling jihadists. The United States ...
Washington (AFP) — The United States has begun urgently shipping weapons to the Iraqi Kurdish forces battling an advance by extremist Islamic State militants, a State Department spokeswoman said Monday. “We’re working with the government ...