Conflicts

Women will be included for the first time in the Taliban delegation to peace talks in Qatar this month, the movement's main spokesman said on April 15, ahead of the latest round of meetings aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan.

Turkish armed forces have "neutralized" a key PKK militant leader in an air offensive in northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry said on April 9.         

Turkish airstrikes on April 5 hit PKK targets in northern Iraq, according to Turkey's National Defense Ministry.     

Turkish airstrikes on April 1 hit PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq, according to Turkey's National Defense Ministry.     

The National Intelligence Service (EYP) was the first agency to locate and identify, in August 2018, Farhoud Hassan, the Syrian national who was arrested by Hungarian authorities in December 2018, and to immediately inform its international partners about him, it said on Thursday.

Top defense officials from the U.S. and France discussed a host of issues on March 18, including operations in Syria.

A wanted PKK militant code-named Havar Bedran was neutralized in Hakurk, northern Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on March 17.    

Eight years of war in Syria have left more than 370,000 people dead including 112,000 civilians, a monitor said on March 15.

Turkey's foreign minister appealed on March 4 to Muslim nations to speak out strongly against Israeli policies against Palestinians.   

At least 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, security sources said on Jan. 22, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously.