Two drowned Syrian boys and their mother buried in home town Kobani (Update 2)
By Rodi Said and Krisztina Than A Syrian father on Friday buried his wife and two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to...
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Turkey denies turning blind eye to Islamic State as bombing stokes anger
By Mehmet Emin Caliskan Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu rejected accusations Turkey had in the past tacitly supported Islamic State militants operating from Syria and unwittingly...
Suspected Islamic State suicide bombing kills 28 in Turkish border town (Update 3)
By Seyhmus Cakan A SUSPECTED Islamic State suicide bomber killed at least 28 people, mostly young students, in an attack on a Turkish town near...
Islamic State kills at least 145 civilians in Syria’s Kobani – monitor
By Sylvia Westall Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in...
Kurdish party says Kobani “massacre” reflects Turkey support for Islamic State
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party described an Islamic State attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani as a massacre and blamed it on Turkish state support...
Islamic State attacks Syrian government and Kurds in twin assault
By Tom Perry and Sylvia Westall Islamic State fighters launched simultaneous attacks against the Syrian government and Kurdish militia overnight, moving back onto the offensive...
Bomb blast hits Turkish checkpoint near Syrian border, three hurt
By Seyhmus Cakan A bomb detonated by remote control rocked an area near a Turkish police checkpoint close to the Syrian border on Friday, wounding...
Kurds close to driving Islamic State out of Syria’s Kobani
Kurdish fighters, backed by U.S.-led air strikes, are close to regaining full control of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border from Islamic...
Turkey, US ease strains on Islamic State but differences remain
By Nick Tattersall and Dasha Afanasieva Turkey and the United States smoothed over some differences in the fight against Islamic State during a weekend visit...
Iraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria to fight Islamic State
By Humeyra Pamuk and Alexander Dziadosz A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help...
Kurdish convoy heads to Syria to take on Islamic State
By Dasha Afanasieva and Alexander Dziadosz A convoy of Iraqi peshmerga fighters and weaponry made its way across southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for...
Only Syrian opposition and peshmerga can save Kobani – Turkish PM
By Jonny Hogg Turkey cannot be expected to send troops to defend the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and only Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters...
Suicide bomber kills 27 militiamen in Iraq, all eyes on Kobani
By Michael Georgy A suicide bomber killed at least 27 Shi’ite militiamen on the outskirts of the Iraqi town of Jurf al-Sakhar on Monday after...
Kurds reject Erdogan report of deal with Syrian rebels to aid besieged Kobani
By Humeyra Pamuk and Sylvia Westall A senior Syrian Kurdish official on Friday rejected a report from Turkey’s president that Syrian Kurds had agreed to...
Air strikes kills around 25 Islamic State fighters in Iraq
By Saif Hameed Coalition air strikes killed around 25 Islamic State fighters on Wednesday near the northern Iraqi city of Baiji, residents told Reuters. They...
Turkish PM unveils tighter security steps after deadly protests
By Jonny Hogg and Gulsen Solaker Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu unveiled a tightening of security legislation on Tuesday following deadly protests this month, amid...
U.S. military says air-drops weapons for Kurdish fighters near Kobani
By Arshad Mohammed The U.S. military said it had air-dropped arms to Syrian rebels fighting Islamic State militants near Kobani on Sunday in what appeared...
Fiercest fighting in days hits Syrian border town
By Humeyra Pamuk The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight, sources inside the town and a monitoring group said...
Ramped up air strikes stall Islamic State advance on Syrian town
By Humeyra Pamuk Two days of heavy air strikes by US warplanes have slowed an advance by Islamic State militants against Kurdish forces defending the...
US steps up air strikes on Kobani
By Humeyra Pamuk and Tom Perry The United States and its allies have dramatically stepped up air strikes in the past two days near the...