Kurdish Fighters

US shoots down Syrian fighter jet near Raqqa, alleges it of bombing coalition forces

An American fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane that the US-led coalition said attacked its allies in the fight against the Islamic State group

Victory for Kurdish forces as IS fighters admit defeat in Syria's Kobani

The Islamic State group has acknowledged for the first time that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani and vowed to attack the town again.

Kurdish fighters control 90 percent of city in northern Syria

Kurdish fighters now control around 90 percent of the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobani in northern Syria, a monitoring group reported Monday.

Iraqi Kurds arrive in Syria to help fight Islamic State militants

A group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops arrived in Turkey early Wednesday and headed toward the border to help their Syrian brethren fight Islamic State extremists in the embattled town of Kobani.

US airdrops arms to Kurds in Syria's Kobani to help fight against ISIS

The US military said on Sunday it had airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants.

Kurds hold off ISIS militants in Syria's border town Kobani

Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria's border town of Kobani on Sunday, but the fighters struck with deadly bombings in Iraq, killing dozens of Kurds in the north.

Kurds battle for key Syria town, woman suicide bomber hits Islamic State

Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes battled the Islamic State group for a key Syrian town, with one woman defender blowing herself up using the jihadists' own tactic.

Islamic State militants behead Kurdish prisoner, post video to 'warn' US

The jihadist Islamic State group has posted a video of the execution of a captured Kurdish fighter, in a warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said.