A border guard official told AFP that the guards were patrolling a village near the Turkish border when "shooting and clashes" with the PKK broke out. A shooting which officials blamed on the ...

The Kurdish-led authorities in north-eastern Syria say a US-backed Kurdish militia has begun withdrawing from territory along the border with Turkey. The "first practical steps" came on the ...

TASS/. Kurdish units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have taken western parts of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor governorate and areas near the border with Iraq, which were controlled by government ...

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He said the brigades will be deployed at the border of the Kurdish autonomous region with Iran. Last week, the Security Council of Iraqi government decided to adopt a set of measures to reinforce ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Border Guards Command said on Friday that it had killed two militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) near the Iraqi-Turkish border in response to the ...

Talks are taking place on whether U.S. and French troops could secure a border zone in northern Syria as part of efforts to defuse conflict between Turkey and Western-backed Kurdish Syrian forces, a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The joint deployment of ... "The movement of armed fighters and sleeper cells of ISIS has ceased in the Kifri border areas, especially after the deployment of a joint ...

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Friday in a statement that two members of the Iraqi border guards were killed and another wounded in an attack that it said was carried out by the Kurdistan Workers ...