Kurdish Militant Group

Kurdish militants from the outlawed PKK group announced a temporary halt in fighting to facilitate rescue work after the huge earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria.

ISIS militants are suspected of firing a shell loaded with a chemical agent during an attack on U.S. and Iraqi troops in northern Iraq Tuesday, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in northern Syria on Saturday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes against both Kurdish forces and Islamic State.

Two men who were reportedly killed in combat while fighting the ISIS group in Syria left suburban Denver neighborhoods for a war zone because of comradery and an unshakeable drive to right an injustice, their families said Wednesday.

An opposition activist group and a Kurdish official say fighting is taking place in a northern Syrian town held by the ISIS after the militants did not respond to an offer to withdraw from the encircled town within 48 hours.

Militant Kurdish group the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) today claimed a car bombing in the centre of Istanbul earlier this week that killed seven police and four civilians.

Syrian state media and an activist group say militant shelling of a predominantly Kurdish neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least nine people.

A Syrian rebel group which is part of a new US-backed alliance that also includes the Kurdish YPG militia announced on Thursday plans for an imminent offensive against Islamic State militants in Raqqa province, the jihadists' stronghold in Syria.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday both the Islamic State and the Kurdish militant group PKK may have played a role in the twin Ankara bombings over the weekend that killed almost a hundred people.

The United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Turkish war planes struck targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq and in southeast Turkey overnight, in a new wave of air raids against the Kurdish militant group, the prime minister's office said Wednesday.

Turkish forces on Saturday unleashed a third wave of airstrikes and ground attacks on targets of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Islamic State group fighters fired missiles containing toxic gas at Kurdish forces in Syria last month, the forces and a monitoring group said.

Kurdish militants will attack Turkey's dam construction sites in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the group said in a statement late on Saturday, another blow to a fragile peace process meant to end a three-decade insurgency.

Kurdish fighters said they have fully secured the Syrian border town of Kobani and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group attacked it with suicide bombers.

Kurdish militants from the outlawed PKK group announced a temporary halt in fighting to facilitate rescue work after the huge earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria.

ISIS militants are suspected of firing a shell loaded with a chemical agent during an attack on U.S. and Iraqi troops in northern Iraq Tuesday, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in northern Syria on Saturday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes against both Kurdish forces and Islamic State.

Two men who were reportedly killed in combat while fighting the ISIS group in Syria left suburban Denver neighborhoods for a war zone because of comradery and an unshakeable drive to right an injustice, their families said Wednesday.

An opposition activist group and a Kurdish official say fighting is taking place in a northern Syrian town held by the ISIS after the militants did not respond to an offer to withdraw from the encircled town within 48 hours.

Militant Kurdish group the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) today claimed a car bombing in the centre of Istanbul earlier this week that killed seven police and four civilians.

Syrian state media and an activist group say militant shelling of a predominantly Kurdish neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least nine people.

A Syrian rebel group which is part of a new US-backed alliance that also includes the Kurdish YPG militia announced on Thursday plans for an imminent offensive against Islamic State militants in Raqqa province, the jihadists' stronghold in Syria.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday both the Islamic State and the Kurdish militant group PKK may have played a role in the twin Ankara bombings over the weekend that killed almost a hundred people.

The United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Turkish war planes struck targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq and in southeast Turkey overnight, in a new wave of air raids against the Kurdish militant group, the prime minister's office said Wednesday.

Turkish forces on Saturday unleashed a third wave of airstrikes and ground attacks on targets of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Islamic State group fighters fired missiles containing toxic gas at Kurdish forces in Syria last month, the forces and a monitoring group said.

Kurdish militants will attack Turkey's dam construction sites in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the group said in a statement late on Saturday, another blow to a fragile peace process meant to end a three-decade insurgency.

Kurdish fighters said they have fully secured the Syrian border town of Kobani and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group attacked it with suicide bombers.