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Kurdish militant group claims deadly Turkey attack ASIA

Kurdish militant group claims deadly Turkey attack

A Kurdish militant group that has carried out a string of attacks in Turkey this year on Sunday claimed a bombing on the southeastern city of Diyarbakir that killed 11.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkish court jails nine staff of opposition daily ASIA

Turkish court jails nine staff of opposition daily

An Istanbul court on Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
20 wounded in blast near police building in Turkey ASIA

20 wounded in blast near police building in Turkey

Around 20 people were wounded when a blast struck outside a police building early Friday in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir, the centre of the country's Kurdish minority, security officials said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraqi Kurds claim capture of town in advance on Mosul ASIA

Iraqi Kurds claim capture of town in advance on Mosul

Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold in Iraq.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syria's Kurds restore ancient names to Arabised towns ASIA

Syria's Kurds restore ancient names to Arabised towns

On a dusty road in northeast Syria, a woman and her four children stand beside a freshly erected green sign for Joldara, the Kurdish name of her village known for decades as Shajra.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pentagon chief reviews Mosul offensive with Kurds ASIA

Pentagon chief reviews Mosul offensive with Kurds

US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter arrived in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Sunday to review the ongoing military offensive to retake the jihadist bastion of Mosul.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Deadly Turkish raids on US-backed Kurd fighters ASIA

Deadly Turkish raids on US-backed Kurd fighters

Turkish warplanes carried out deadly strikes on US-backed militias in northern Syria, including Syrian Kurdish fighters, a monitor said Thursday, action that is likely to raise tensions between the NATO allies.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Thousands of Kurds protest against Erdogan in Cologne INTERNATIONAL

Thousands of Kurds protest against Erdogan in Cologne

About 25,000 Kurdish supporters demonstrated peacefully in Cologne on Saturday against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, chanting in German, "neither military coup nor civilian dictatorship."

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkey kills 27 Kurdish PKK militants in air, land strikes ASIA

Turkey kills 27 Kurdish PKK militants in air, land strikes

The Turkish military said on Friday it had killed 27 members of the outlawed Kurdish PKK militant group in air strikes and land operations in the southeast of the country.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkish army pounds north Syria, monitor says 35 civilians killed ASIA

Turkish army pounds north Syria, monitor says 35 civilians killed

A group monitoring the Syrian war said Turkish air strikes and artillery attacks killed at least 35 civilians and wounded dozens more on Sunday, the fifth day of Turkey's cross-border campaign that it says targets Islamic State and Kurdish forces.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkish warplanes, artillery hit targets in north Syria ASIA

Turkish warplanes, artillery hit targets in north Syria

Turkish warplanes and artillery struck targets held by the Kurdish YPG militia in north Syria on Sunday, security sources said, as Turkey pressed on with a cross-border campaign launched last week with its Syrian rebel allies.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkish tanks roll into Syria, pushing IS out of key border town ASIA

Turkish tanks roll into Syria, pushing IS out of key border town

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered one of Islamic State's last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border on Wednesday, in Turkey's first major US-backed incursion into its southern neighbour.

4:45 AM November 25 2016