U.S. authorities believed that the extremist group, the Islamic State (IS), likely used mustard agent against Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Syrian forces and allied fighters dislodged the Islamic State (IS) militants from areas they stormed in the northern city of Hasaka, the state news agency SANA reported Sunday.
The United States on Monday expressed concerns about alleged use of chlorine gas by the extremist group the Islamic States (IS) against Kurdish forces.
Kurdish militants and rebel groups on Thursday captured 19 villages in the countryside of Syria's northern al-Raqqa province, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) militants, a monitoring group reported.
Turkey's two years long peace process to settle the country's Kurdish problem has hit a roadblock over violence in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast.
The entry of Peshmerga fighters from Iraq to battle the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria 's predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab aims at guaranteeing the interests of Turkey in that Kurdish region, analysts say.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group released 25 Kurdish students it had snatched in Syria's northern province of Aleppo last May, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
As many as 50 fighters of the Islamic State (IS) terror group were either killed or injured on Sunday during fresh clashes with the Kurdish fighters in Syria's predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish borders, according to the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group staged an explosion in the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish borders on Wednesday, causing unknown losses or casualties, according to the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Islamic State (IS) militants captured three neighborhoods in the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria on Monday, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
At least 35 fighters of the Islamic State (IS) militant group were killed Saturday by the strikes of the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition in northern Syria, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was cited by the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV as saying.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has taken part of a strategic mountain overlooking the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria after intense battles with Kurdish militants, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday.
Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft have conducted a precision bomb attack on an armed Islamic State (IS) pick-up truck in Iraq, British Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Thursday.
Kurds retake two towns from IS in northern IraqKurdish forces retook two towns from the Islamic State militants in northern Iraq on Sunday as the U.S. military continued to launch airstrikes against targets of the extremist group, local media reported.
A leading Syrian Kurdish figure stressed Tuesday that the Kurds have no intention to establish an independent political entity, or Kurdish government, in the Kurdish-dominated areas in Syria.
Some Syrian mothers who were forced to escape into Iraq by the fighting between Kurdish fighters and the extremist al-Nusra militant group were sad for having left their children back in Syria, as some others have been stuck for days on the border point, waiting for their sons and daughters to make their way to the safer place and reunite with them.
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