Tag: Kurdish militants

Turkey detains 90 over alleged links to Kurdish militants

ANKARA: Turkish police detained 90 people on Tuesday over suspected links to outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels, the government said, and the main...

Erdogan vows to ‘finish’ Kurdish militants in Iraq to avenge dead...

ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday vowed to "finish" Kurdish militants in Iraq's Sinjar and Qandil regions to avenge eight Turkish soldiers killed...

Turkish airstrikes kill four Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

ISTANBUL: The Turkish military carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq's Avasin Basyan region on Saturday, killing four Kurdish militants, it said on its official...

Erdogan says Turkey will crush Kurdish militia in Afrin

ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey’s military incursion in northern Syria’s Idlib province would crush Kurdish militia forces that control the...

Turkish air strikes kill 29 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq: army

  ISTANBUL: Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq on Monday and killed 29 of the group’s militants, Turkey’s armed forces...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards kill five Kurdish rebels

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have killed five Kurdish rebels near the country’s northwestern border with Iraq, an official statement said Monday. “A team of five...

Turkish army kills 23 Kurdish militants in clashes, air strike

Turkey’s armed forces killed 23 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in the latest clashes in eastern Turkey, including three militants who died in an...