Eight killed in fresh violence in Turkey
17h10 - DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 31, 2007 (AFP) - The Turkish army killed four separatist Kurdish rebels on Thursday while four civilians died and four others were wounded in an attack blamed on the militants, officials said.

Seven killed, four wounded in fresh violence in Turkey
16h02 - DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 31, 2007 (AFP) - The Turkish army killed four separatist Kurdish rebels on Thursday while three civilians died and four others were wounded in an attack blamed on the militants, officials said.

Turkish army says confronting Barzani forces a possibility
12h21 - ISTANBUL, May 31, 2007 (AFP) - Turkish troops could find themselves fighting Iraqi forces that control northern Iraq if they launch a crossborder operation to strike at Turkish Kurd rebels based there, Turkey's top general said Thursday.

Seven Iranian soldiers killed in border clashes
12h20 - TEHRAN, May 31, 2007 (AFP) - Seven Iranian soldiers, including two generals, have been killed in clashes with rebels in a Kurdish populated area in the north of the country, the official IRNA agency reported on Thursday.

Four Kurdish rebels killed in Turkey
09h59 - DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 31, 2007 (AFP) - The Turkish army killed four separatist Kurdish rebels on Thursday during fighting in the east and southeast of the country, officials said.

Three Kurdish rebels killed in Turkey
08h01 - DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 31, 2007 (AFP) - The army killed three separatist Kurdish rebels early Thursday during fighting in eastern Turkey, local security forces here said.

Iraqi Kurds take charge of own security
17h21 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 30, 2007 (AFP) - In a blaze of pomp showcasing Kurdish military muscle, US forces handed over reponsibility for security in Iraq's three northern provinces to the Kurdish regional government on Wednesday.

Two killed in violence in southeast Turkey
15h51 - ANKARA, May 30, 2007 (AFP) - Security forces killed a separatist Kurdish rebel in southeastern Turkey while a soldier died in a landmine explosion blamed on the militants, the army and the Anatolia news agency said.

Six Kurdish rebels killed in May clashes: army
18h16 - ANKARA, May 14, 2007 (AFP) - Turkish security forces have killed six Kurdish rebels in clashes with the separatists since the beginning of the month, the army said Monday.

Qaeda claims attack on Kurdish compound in Iraq
10h23 - DUBAI, May 14, 2007 (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda front group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur which killed 50 people.

Suicide attack on Kurdish officials in Iraq kills 50
14h58 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 13, 2007 (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people, many of them Kurdish officials, on Sunday when he ploughed an explosives-laden SUV into administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, officials said.

Attack on Kurdish officials in Iraq kills 35
13h20 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 13, 2007 (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people on Sunday when he ploughed his explosives-laden SUV into local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, officials said.

Attack on Kurdish officials in Iraq kills 32
11h36 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 13, 2007 (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed 32 people on Sunday when he ploughed his explosives-laden SUV into local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Mahmur, officials said.

Suicide attack on Kurdish officials kills 32
11h23 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 13, 2007 (AFP) - A suicide car bomb attack on Sunday against a meeting of mainly Kurdish officials in northern Iraq left 32 people dead and wounded 115, Kurdish regional health minister Zirian Abdel Rahman said.

Bomb attack on Iraqi Kurdish parties kills 10
10h30 - MOSUL, Iraq, May 13, 2007 (AFP) - A suicide car bomb hit a compound housing the local headquarters of two Kurdish political parties in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60, police said.

Bomb attack on Iraqi Kurdish parties kill 10
10h06 - MOSUL, Iraq, May 13, 2007 (AFP) - A suicide car bomb attack in northern Iraq Sunday on a compound housing a police post and the local headquarters of two Kurdish political parties killed 10 people and injured 60, police said.

Thousands rally for 'poisoned' leader of Turkish Kurds
14h40 - STRASBOURG, France, May 12, 2007 (AFP) - Several thousand Kurds protested in the French city of Strasbourg on Saturday against the alleged poisoning of Abdullah Ocalan by the Turkish authorities and demanded that the jailed Kurdish leader be examined by independent doctors.

Turkey's Kurdish party fumes at controversial electoral bill
11h22 - ANKARA, May 12, 2007 (AFP) - Turkey's main Kurdish party called on the president Saturday to veto a controversial bill widely seen as a bid to hinder Kurdish politicians seeking parliamentary seats in the July 22 elections.

Turkey condemned over filmmaker biography at Europe court
15h34 - STRASBOURG, May 10, 2007 (AFP) - A Turkish publisher who had been fined for publishing a biography of Kurdish filmmaker Yilmaz Guney won his case against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights Thursday.

Turkish MPs pass amendment seen as curbing Kurdish votes
10h18 - ANKARA, May 10, 2007 (AFP) - Turkish legislators on Thursday approved a constitutional amendment widely seen as an effort to make it more difficult for Kurdish politicians from non-mainstream political parties to enter parliament in the July 22 elections.

Iraqi Kurds send 1,000 troops to Iran border
08h53 - SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, May 10, 2007 (AFP) - Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has sent 1,000 peshmerga troops to its border with Iran to prevent attacks by the Islamist insurgent group Ansar al-Islam, a spokesman said on Thursday.

Turkey's Kurdish party to field independent candidates
15h30 - ANKARA, Turkey, May 9, 2007 (AFP) - Turkey's main Kurdish party will pitch independent candidates in general elections on July 22 in a bid to bypass the high threshhold for parliamentary representation, its chairman said Wednesday.

Truck bomb shatters Iraqi Kurd dreams of security
12h59 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 9, 2007 (AFP) - A powerful bomb exploded Wednesday in Iraq's normally peaceful Kurdish capital of Arbil, killing at least 14 in a rare attack in a region usually sheltered from the country's turmoil.

Truck bomb kills 19 in Kurdish Iraqi capital
07h10 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 9, 2007 (AFP) - A truck bomb killed 19 people and wounded 70 Wednesday in front of the interior ministry in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's normally calm Kurdish autonomous region, the region's health minister said.

Truck bomb kills seven in Kurdish Iraqi capital
05h31 - ARBIL, Iraq, May 9, 2007 (AFP) - A truck bomb exploded Wednesday, killing seven people in front of the interior ministry in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's normally calm Kurdish autonomous region, police said.

Iraqi Kurd leader tells Turkey dialogue should replace threats
16h43 - BRUSSELS, May 8, 2007 (AFP) - Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani on Monday denied that he threatened to intervene in Turkey over the Kurdish minority question, while warning Ankara he would not tolerate any threats from them.

Four Kurds jailed for life over deadly Turkey bombing
15h12 - ISTANBUL, May 7, 2007 (AFP) - Four Kurdish militants, including one woman, were sentenced Monday to life in jail for a 1999 petrol bomb attack on an Istanbul shopping mall that killed 13 people, Anatolia news agency reported.

Kurd oil deals illegal if signed before new law: Iraqi minister
09h40 - RIYADH, May 2, 2007 (AFP) - Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani warned on Wednesday that any oil contracts signed by northern Iraq's Kurdish regional government before a new oil law is passed would be considered invalid.

Kurdish director scoops film awards in Singapore
02h39 - SINGAPORE, May 1, 2007 (AFP) - A movie set against the backdrop of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq scooped two awards for Kurdish film maker Shawkat Amin Korki at the Singapore International Film Festival.