Syria's Kurdish minority has been caught in the middle of the civil war. While some Kurdish fighters are battling Bashar al-Assad's forces, one group is fighting the Free Syrian Army. Fighters say they haven't made a deal with the regime but are t...
A 12-year old girl has become the ninth person to die following Monday's car bomb attack on the Turkish city of Gaziantep. Four children are now known to have died in the bomb blast. Hundreds of people gathered on the streets of the southeaste...
Syria has become the bloodiest uprising of the Arab Spring and has now descended into a full-blown civil war. Find out what's behind the conflict and what's at stake for the international community.
Kurds in the north of Syria say they have taken control of most of the region's major towns and cities from government forces. And, as Henry Ridgwell reports, Turkey fears the twin threats of the Syrian civil conflict spilling over the frontier as...
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