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Syria regime, Kurds agree truce in Hasakeh ASIA

Syria regime, Kurds agree truce in Hasakeh

Regime forces and Kurdish fighters agreed on Tuesday to a truce in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh after a week of clashes, a Kurdish official and Syrian state media said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kurds vs Syrian army battle intensifies, complicating multi-fronted war ASIA

Kurds vs Syrian army battle intensifies, complicating multi-fronted war

Fighting between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces intensified late on Friday and into Saturday, creating the risk of yet another front opening in the multi-sided civil war.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
US scrambled jets as Syrian regime targeted Kurdish forces ASIA

US scrambled jets as Syrian regime targeted Kurdish forces

The US-led coalition scrambled fighter jets to protect Kurdish forces working with American advisors in Syria as they were being targeted by planes from President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the Pentagon said Friday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kurdish journalist killed in northern Iraq fighting ASIA

Kurdish journalist killed in northern Iraq fighting

An Iraqi Kurdish reporter was killed and another wounded on Sunday during a military operation against the Islamic State group in northern Iraq, officials said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS abducts around 2,000 civilians in north Syria ASIA

IS abducts around 2,000 civilians in north Syria

Islamic State group fighters seized around 2,000 civilians to use as "human shields" Friday as they fled their stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, US-backed forces and a monitor said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Five Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attack ASIA

Five Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attack

Five Turkish soldiers were killed on Wednesday in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants in the restive southeast of the country, a local security source said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Post-Islamic State Iraq should be split in three: top Kurdish official ASIA

Post-Islamic State Iraq should be split in three: top Kurdish official

Once Islamic State is defeated, Iraq should be divided into three separate entities to prevent further sectarian bloodshed, with a state each given to Shia Muslims, Sunnis and Kurds ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq Kurds launch offensive east of Mosul ASIA

Iraq Kurds launch offensive east of Mosul

Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga forces on Sunday launched an offensive to retake areas east of Mosul, the Islamic State's main hub in the country, a statement said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Eight Turkey troops killed in anti-PKK operations: army ASIA

Eight Turkey troops killed in anti-PKK operations: army

Six Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with Kurdish militants in the southeast of the country while two more lost their lives when a military helicopter sent to the scene crashed, the army said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkey to work on rule to strip terrorism supporters of citizenship ASIA

Turkey to work on rule to strip terrorism supporters of citizenship

Turkey will work on a new rule to strip citizenship from Turks found to be supporting terrorism, the justice minister said on Wednesday, a day after President Tayyip Erdogan said he wanted such a measure.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Dozens killed in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast ASIA

Dozens killed in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast

A local elected official was killed in Turkey's strife-hit southeast on Monday after a weekend of violence that also claimed the lives of almost 30 militants and soldiers, according to security sources.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syrian Kurds set to announce federal system in northern Syria ASIA

Syrian Kurds set to announce federal system in northern Syria

Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, Kurdish officials said on Wednesday, taking matters into their own hands after being excluded from talks in Geneva to resolve Syria's civil war.

4:45 AM November 25 2016