(The Daily Star)- Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite forces agreed to coordinate movements after cutting off Mosul from the rest of the territory held by ISIS in western Iraq and Syria in support of a U.S-backed offensive to capture the city, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Thursday. The agreement...

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...