A soldier was martyred in a PKK terror attack in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak on Thursday, according to security sources. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said a soldier was martyred when PKK terrorists exploded a...

More than 10,500 state employees have been dismissed over suspected links with the Kurdish PKK militant group, Turkish Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said on Thursday in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk. Turkey is fighting an insurgency by the PKK in the largely Kurdish southeast...

(BBC)- An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled by so-called Islamic State. The Popular Mobilisation (Hashd al-Shaabi) declared it had taken control of the road between Tal Afar and Sinjar after linking up with...

ISIS militants returning from Syria could carry out mustard gas attacks after learning how to use the toxic substance in battle zones, a senior official from the global chemical weapons watchdog warned on Wednesday. An inquiry by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of...