ANKARA - Turkey’s military says eight Turkish soldiers have been killed by Kurdish forces from the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin region in northwest Syria. The Turkish forces were killed in a YPG attack on a tank, the military said on Saturday. Turkey has been waging “Operation ...

AL-KHAZIR, Iraq (APP): The line of cars flying white flags kept on coming Tuesday as Iraqi forces began to evacuate residents of the last villages near the Islamic State group bastion of Mosul.Mosul Battle: Iraq deadliest fight against ISISAnd it was not just people. Some vehicles had animals ...

ARBIL, Iraq (APP) - Iraqi forces battled Sunday through booby-traps, sniper fire and suicide car bombs to tighten the noose around Mosul, while also hunting Islamic State group jihadists behind attacks elsewhere in the country.Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces final offensive against ISIS Hq. ...

WASHINGTON:(APP) Washington is considering arming Syrian Kurdish forces who will join the offensive to retake the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa, the US military's top officer said Thursday.Though the United States has already helped arm Kurdish fighters in Iraq, a similar move in Syria ...

WASHINGTON (APP) - Turkish and Kurdish forces in northern Syria have reached a "loose agreement" to stop fighting each other, a US defense official told on Tuesday. "In the last several hours, we have received assurance that all parties involved are going to stop shooting at each other and focus ...

HASAKEH, Syria (APP): New fighting broke out overnight between Kurdish and regime forces in the flash point northern Syrian city of Hasakeh, a monitor said on Monday, as Russian officials pursued mediation efforts. The fresh violence came amid conflicting reports on whether a truce had been agreed ...

HASAKEH, Syria (APP) - Syrian regime jets pounded US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria for a second day Friday, even after the US-led coalition scrambled jets to protect its military advisers working on the ground.In another escalation of Syria's bloody conflict, warplanes from President ...

WASHINGTON: (APP) The US-led coalition scrambled fighters after Syrian regime jets targeted Kurdish forces working with US advisers in northern Syrian, an incident marking another escalation in Syria's bloody conflict, the Pentagon said Friday.Thursday's air strike, conducted by two Syrian SU-24 ...

ARBIL, Iraq: (APP) Iraqi Kurdish forces on Monday wrapped up a two-day offensive during which they took several positions from the Islamic State group near its Mosul bastion, officials said.The peshmerga forces had launched the assault on Sunday to retake villages in the Nineveh plain between ...