Al-Monitor - Iraq summoned the ambassadors from Iran and Turkey on Thursday due to their ongoing military actions against Kurdish groups in the country. Iraq demanded in a statement Turkey stop its military actions against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq. Iraq also sent a statement to Iran protesting its attacks on Kurdish groups within ...

Tasnim The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force dismissed the groundless claim made by Turkish officials that the PKK terrorists are on Iranian soil near the common border. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a visit to military bases in northwestern Iran on Saturday, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour denied ...

Reuters - A rocket hit an armoured vehicle carrying Turkish customs personnel in an attack near the border with Iran on Friday, killing one person and injuring others, Turkish officials said, adding that clashes were under way in the area. The rocket struck the vehicles front wheel around 0550 GMT on Monday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said ...

Sputnik - According to various reports, Kurdish forces have been withdrawing from the 120-kilometre (75 miles) wide and 30-kilometre (20 miles) deep Turkey-proposed "safe zone" in north-eastern Syria. However, the situation on the ground is changing rapidly, international observers say, describing scenarios of further developments in the region. On ...

Press TV - Turkey has accusedKurdish militants of violating a temporary truce in northern Syria even as a fragile ceasefire was reported to b holding. Ankara on Thursday agreed to pause its incursion into Syria for 120 hours while the US facilitates the withdrawal of Kurdish SDF militantsfrom a 20-mile safe zone along the Syrian-Turkish border. Reuters ...

Tasnim A senior spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces strongly denied reports that the Islamic Republic has carried out a joint operation with Turkey against militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). In comments released on Wednesday night, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said there was no kind of joint operation ...

MNA An informed source from General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran said the country had no involvement in Turkeys operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group on Monday. Turkey commenced a military operation against PKK on Monday morning in which Irans armed forces had noparticipation,...

IFP - The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has dismissed statements by a senior Turkish military official on Irans support for joint military action in northern Iraq against the PKK militants. A senior spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said, In spite of Irans support for any anti-terrorist ...

Press TV- Turkey has carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq against the strongholds of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, whom it says were planning to launch attacks on Turkish soil. The military said on Tuesday that its warplanes had carried out the raids in the Zap region in northern Iraq a day earlier, destroying hideouts ...

Alwaght- Following full retaking of Syrias northern city of Raqqa from ISIS terrorist group by the US-backed Kurdish militias, so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an incident called attention in the celebration ceremony that marked liberation of the destroyed city. A group of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) fighters raised a ...

Tasnim Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan said Tehran and Ankara may launch a joint operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its offshoot PJAK in the near future. A joint operation with Iran against terror groups that are posing threat is always on the agenda, Erdogan told reporters on Monday, the Daily Sabah reported....

Press TV- More than a dozen Turkish soldiers have sustained injuries in a roadside bomb explosion that targeted their military vehicle in Turkeys southeastern and Kurdish-populated province of Hakkari. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Monday that militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) detonated an improvised explosive ...

Sputnik News- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would reconsider its approach to protecting its national borders, including building walls along the border with Iraq and Iran. Thus, the planned walls will add tothe one being currently constructed alongthe Turkish-Syrian border. According toAnkara, walls alongthe borders withIraq ...

ISNA Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi denied reports of some Turkish media, emphasizing that there is no anti-Turkey group in Iran. Some Turkish media claimed that a number of PKK militants have deployed in some parts of Iranian border and actually Iran sheltered these terrorist elements. These remarks are projection and falsehood....

Press TV- An informed source at the Iranian Foreign Ministry says Turkey must keep Iran updatedon any construction ofa wall along the two countries border. The source added on Tuesday that Iran welcomes Turkeys plan and does not oppose it;however, Ankara must notify Tehran before any move. The Iranian official further said the Islamic Republic ...

Press TV- More than a dozen members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed when Turkish military aircraft carried out two separate aerial attacks against the militants positions in Iraqs semi-autonomousKurdistan region. TheTurkish General Staffannounced in a statement on Saturday that six PKK terrorists were killed around Sinat-Haftan ...

Press TV- At least sixIraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces have reportedly been killed as Turkey resumes air raids on Kurdish positions in northern Iraq and in northeastern Syria. Kurdish sources said theywere killed by mistake in a Turkish strike on a position held by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militants on the Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq....

Alwaght- Masoud Barzani, the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, made a scheduled visit to Turkey on Sunday, 26 February, meeting the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upon his arrival in Turkey. Following meeting the Turkish leader, Barzani had also talked to turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Kurdish regions chief visit to Ankara ...

Alwaght- Since 1984 when the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) was founded to struggle for the rights of the Kurdish minorities in the southeastern regions of Turkey, Ankara has been grappling with the Kurdish challenge in its policies. The over 40-year clashes between PKK and the Turkish forces have claimed lives of thousands people from both ...

Press TV- At least one person has been killed after a blasthit the center of Turkeys southeastern city of Diyarbakir, which has witnessed tensions between Ankaras forces and Kurdish militants. Turkish media reported that ambulances were dispatched to the site of the blast, which also wounded 30 people, inthe citys Baglar district on Friday morning....