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Kurdish insurgents kill at least two Turkish soldiers when attacking a military base with rockets in Iraq.
2020-09-18

Five Kurdish civilians near Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are killed by Turkish airstrikes.
2020-06-19

Turkey deploys the Gendarmerie General Command to the eastern city of Batman after a riot erupts inside the city's Type-M prison. The riot comes after the Turkish parliament approved the release of 100,000 inmates due to COVID-19, but excluded journalists and political prisoners, many of whom are Kurds.
2020-04-4

After meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says Turkey has agreed to a five-day ceasefire in Syria while the United States helps facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters.
2019-10-17

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says his country has launched a military invasion of northern and eastern Syria. The Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces say that Turkish fighter aircraft strike targets and "civilian areas". Syrian state television says the Turkish artillery shelling of Ras al-Ayn, al-Hasakah Governorate, is "random", and Ayn Issa, Raqqa Governorate, is also being shelled.
2019-10-9

The Syrian Army, along with what is believed to be Iranian-backed militias, took control villages east of the Euphrates river near the city of Deir ez-Zor that were under the control by Kurdish-led forces in a rare clash with the Syrian Democratic Forces. The territory was later recaptured by U.S.-backed forces in a counter-attack spearheaded by the YPG with help from U.S.-led coalition jets that took off from American bases in northern Syria. The U.S. military says in a statement that the "coalition used established deconfliction channels to de-escalate the situation".
2018-04-29

Suspected Kurdish militants fire rockets at Diyarbakır Airport in Diyarbakır, Turkey.
2016-08-27

U.S. cargo planes airdrop small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian rebels, including Kurdish groups such as YPG, in northern Syria.
2015-10-12

An Islamic state attack on a Kurdish Nowruz festival (New Year's Day) kills 45 people.
2015-03-20

Tens of thousands of Kurds flee into Turkey ahead of an ISIL offensive.
2014-09-21