Kurdish Forces
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Turkey: 1,000 detained including those with alleged links to Kurdish militants after suicide attack
World | Oct 03, 2023, 06:30 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 02, 2023, 04:33 PM ISTA 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 | Oct 26, 2019, 03:20 PM ISTFollowing 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 | Oct 17, 2017, 11:26 PM ISTIraqi 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 | Oct 17, 2017, 11:20 PM ISTU.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 | Dec 20, 2016, 01:19 PM ISTISIS 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 | Jun 15, 2016, 01:22 PM ISTNew 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 | Oct 26, 2015, 02:37 PM ISTMosul: 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 | Jun 24, 2015, 10:16 AM ISTBeirut: 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 | Jan 12, 2015, 06:51 AM ISTMosul: 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 | Oct 28, 2014, 11:31 PM ISTAnkara: 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