Kurdish Insurgents

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  Turkey Says 69 Kurdish Terrorists Killed In Southeastern Offensive

  Sixty-nine Kurdish insurgents and two Turkish soldiers have been killed in four days of fighting across southeast Turkey as security forces ramp up operations against the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), security sources and the military said on Saturday.

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  Ten Kurdish Militants Killed as PKK Ceasefire Call Fails to Halt Clashes

  Turkish security forces killed ten Kurdish militants during ground and air operations in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, the military said, days after the insurgents called a unilateral ceasefire.

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  Kurds Take Ground From Islamic State in North Iraq

  Kurdish forces said they drove Islamic State out of several villages near the oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Wednesday after U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeted insurgent positions overnight.

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  Turkish Jets Hit Kurdistan Workers Party Targets in Iraq After Soldiers Killed: Sources

  Turkey attacked Kurdish insurgent camps in Iraq for a second night on Sunday, security sources said, in a campaign that could end its peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

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  Thousands Flee Into Turkey From Syria as Kurds Fight Islamic State

  Thousands of people crossed from Syria into Turkey today to flee a battle pitting Islamist insurgents against Kurdish and opposition forces for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.

• Kurds Warn of Massacre by Islamic State, Turkey Stops Short of Action

  Kurdish fighters defending a Syrian border town warned on Friday of a likely massacre by Islamic State insurgents as the Islamists encircled the town with tanks and bombarded its outskirts with artillery fire.

• Turkey Vows Support for Besieged Syrian Town, But No Military Pledge

  Turkey will do what it can to prevent the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, near its border with Syria, falling to Islamic State insurgents, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Thursday, but stopped short of committing to military action.

• Turkey Will Try to Stop Islamic State From Taking Kurdish Border Town: PM Ahmet Davutoglu

  Turkey will do whatever it can to prevent the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, near its border with Syria, falling to Islamic State insurgents, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Thursday.

• Germany to Send Iraqi Kurds Enough Weapons For 4,000 Fighters

  Germany will send enough weapons to arm 4,000 Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq battling against Islamic State (IS) insurgents, whose advances threaten to destabilise the Middle East, the defence minister said on Sunday.

• Kurds Advance Against Militants in Iraq With US Air Support

  Kurdish fighters are advancing towards the militant-held city of Mosul, aiming to reverse gains by Islamic State insurgents, witnesses and a Kurdish peshmerga commander said on Sunday.

• Islamic State 'Massacres' 80 Yazidis in North Iraq: Officials

  Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday.

• Barack Obama Says Tackling Iraq's Insurgency Will Take Time

  President Barack Obama said on Saturday US air strikes had destroyed arms that Islamic State militants could have used against Iraqi Kurds, but he warned there was no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to tear Iraq apart.

• US Strikes Have Destroyed Iraq Militants' Arms and Equipment: Barack Obama

  United States President Barack Obama said on Saturday that US airstrikes have destroyed arms and equipment that Islamic State insurgents could have used to attack Arbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capital, but warned the current operation in Iraq could take some time.

• Sunni Insurgents Seize Small Towns in Iraq's North

  Militants with the Islamic State extremist group on Sunday seized two small towns in northern Iraq after driving out Kurdish security forces, further expanding the territories under their control, officials and residents said.

• Top Kurdish Security Official Warns West of Iraq Blowback

  Western countries will end up fighting insurgents who have overrun large parts of Iraq on their own doorstep unless they intervene to combat the threat at its source, a senior Kurdish security official said in an interview.