TEHRAN, August 28 - Syrian Kurdish officials said they will hold three elections in a “federal region” they are establishing in the Arab country’s north, despite reiterating in the past that they had no such plans.
TEHRAN, August 23 - Turkey’s foreign minister said his country expects the administration of Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region to cancel an upcoming referendum on its independence.
TEHRAN, August 21 - Turkey and Iran discussed possible joint military action against Kurdish militant groups, after talks in Ankara last week between Iranian chief of staff of armed forces and Turkish leaders, Erdogan said.
TEHRAN, August 16 - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has warned that a plan by Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to hold an independence referendum late next month will lead to "civil war" in the conflict-stricken Arab country.
TEHRAN, June 19, YJC - The European Union has cautioned political parties in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against holding an independence referendum in September.
As a coalition of Arab and Kurdish fighters known as the Syrian Democratic Forces are advancing on the self-proclaimed capital of Daesh in Syria, reports indicate that Turkey is planning to use the Free Syrian Army in its battle against Syrian Kurds. The Turkish government has been training FSA militants to fight Kurdish forces for some time now. The aim seems to be keeping the Kurds far from Turkey’s southern border. Our correspondent Rahshan Saglam reports from Istanbul.
TEHRAN, May 25, YJC - The US has dispatched over 100 trucks loaded with armaments and ammunition to the Kurdish-controlled northern Syrian city of Hasakah over the past weeks, Turkish and Kurdish media say.
TEHRAN, April 30, YJC - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to take further military actions against the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) forces in the far northeastern corner of Syria and the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, calling on the US administration to put an end to its support for such groups.
TEHRAN, April 2, YJC - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has referred to himself as a "guardian of peace" while calling on Kurds to vote “Yes” in an upcoming constitutional reforms referendum.
TEHRAN, April 2, YJC -Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has warned against Iraqi's disintegration, saying a potential separation of the country’s Kurds would harm them.
Turkey-backed Kurdish fighters engage in deadly clashes with militants affiliated with the anti-Ankara Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar.
BEIRUT, Oct 01, 2014 (AFP) - Fierce fighting between Kurdish militia and Islamic State jihadists for a strategic Syrian border town killed at least 10 people overnight, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
ISTANBUL, Sept 20, 2014 (AFP) - Some 45,000 Syrian Kurds fleeing clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants have entered Turkey a day after Ankara opened up its border, Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Saturday.
Kurdish forces are in control of one the two official border crossings with Syria, which they seized after Iraqi forces withdrew, a senior Kurdish security official said on Sunday.
Kurdish fighters in Syria seized a crossing on the eastern border with Iraq from jihadist rebel forces during fierce clashes at dawn on Saturday, a monitoring group said.
Tehran, YJC. -- Syrian Kurdish fighters in the north fought fierce battles against jihadists and captured a commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) late Saturday, a monitoring group said.