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  Turkey: 1,000 detained including those with alleged links to Kurdish militants after suicide attack

  World | October 03, 2023 18:30 IST

  The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) had claimed responsibility for Sunday's suicide bomb attack near the Turkish Parliament. It has been designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and the EU.

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  Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish terrorist targets in Iraq after suicide attack in Ankara

  World | October 02, 2023 16:33 IST

  A security camera footage of the "terrorist attack" near the Parliament shows the attacker getting out of the vehicle and blowing himself up. The PKK, designated as a terrorist group by Turkey and the US claimed responsibility for the attack.

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  New clashes break out in northern Syria

  World | October 26, 2019 15:20 IST

  Following a pact struck between Ankara and Moscow this week, Turkish forces suspended a military campaign against the Kurds, whom Ankara regards as a terrorist threat, on Wednesday, giving Kurdish fighters 150 hours to leave a 20-mile-deep belt that Turkey calls a safe zone, reports Efe news.

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  Iraqi forces push Kurds out of Kirkuk, seize oil fields

  World | October 17, 2017 23:26 IST

  Iraqi forces pushed their Kurdish allies out of the disputed city of Kirkuk on Monday, seizing oil fields and other facilities amid soaring tensions over last month’s Kurdish vote for independence.

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  US-backed Syrian forces liberate Raqqa from Islamic State

  World | October 17, 2017 23:20 IST

  U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa on Tuesday from Islamic State militants, a senior commander said.

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  ISIS offers $1 million reward for head of jailed Kurdish woman who fought them in Syria

  World | December 20, 2016 13:19 IST

  ISIS has offered a $1 million (approx Rs 6.8 crore) reward for the killing of a Kurdish-Danish woman who dropped out of university in 2014 to fight the terror group in Syria and Iraq.

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  No sign of missing Indian workers in Iraq, say Kurdish officials: Report

  World | June 15, 2016 13:22 IST

  New Delhi: Peshmerga units of Kurdish Regional Government monitoring the Islamic State’s preparations ahead of a government offensive to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul have found no evidence that Indian or other South Asian

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  Islamic State: Prison rescue operation that killed an American Soldier (Video)

  World | October 26, 2015 14:37 IST

  Mosul: A dramatic footage of a rescue operation carried out by US and Kurdish forces to evacuate over 70 hostages from Islamic State prison in northern Iraq has emerged on social media.The operation took place

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  Kurds keep up offensive against extremists in northern Syria

  World | June 24, 2015 10:16 IST

  Beirut:  Backed by U.S.-led airstrikes and buoyed by battlefield successes, Kurdish fighters kept up an offensive through northern Syria on Tuesday, driving Islamic State militants out of a town near the extremists' de facto capital

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  Over 70 IS militants killed in northern Iraq

  World | January 12, 2015 6:51 IST

  Mosul: Over 70 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Sunday in fierce clashes with joint Iraqi and Kurdish forces backed by US-led coalition aircrafts in northern Iraq.The battle broke out when dozens of IS militants

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  Turkey allows Iraqi Kurdish forces in Syria to fight IS

  World | October 28, 2014 23:31 IST

  Ankara: Turkish government Tuesday said the Iraqi Kurdish forces could cross its territory into Syria at any moment to fight against Islamic State (IS)."There is no political problem in deploying Peshmerga forces of Iraqi Kurdish

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