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Iran threatens to attack rebels across Iraq border


Monday, 11 July, 2011 , 11:27 AFP — Tehran "reserves the right" to attack the bases of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group across the Iraq border, the official IRNA news agency quoted an army official as saying on Monday.

Mass grave with 222 bodies found in Iraq


Sunday, 10 July, 2011 , 14:42 AFP — The remains of 222 people, probably Kurds killed under Iraq's former regime in 1987, were extracted from a mass grave south of Baghdad, the authorities said on Sunday.

Kurdish rebels abduct three in southeast Turkey: military


Sunday, 10 July, 2011 , 08:24 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels abducted two soldiers and a health worker in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast overnight, military sources said Sunday.

(français suivra ) Turkish soldier killed in clashes with Kurds: sources


Friday, 8 July, 2011 , 07:25 AFP — Clashes between the army and Kurdish rebels killed one soldier and left three others wounded in a rural area of eastern Turkey, security sources said Friday.

Mass grave with 900 corpses found in Iraq


Wednesday, 6 July, 2011 , 18:54 AFP — Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave with 900 corpses near the central city of Diwaniyah on Wednesday, believed to be Kurds killed during the rule of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, an official said.

Iraqi Kurd top MP wants US troops to stay on


Tuesday, 5 July, 2011 , 12:44 AFP — The parliament chief of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Tuesday that US troops should stay beyond their planned departure date of end 2011 because security remained tenuous.

Two Turkish soldiers shot dead in Kurdish town


Tuesday, 5 July, 2011 , 07:02 AFP — Two soldiers were shot dead Tuesday in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast in an attack believed to be the work of Kurdish rebels, security sources said.

Iraq Kurd leader warns Iran over shelling


Sunday, 3 July, 2011 , 09:54 AFP — The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region has warned that ties with Tehran could suffer if Iran continues cross-border shelling against opponents, in a statement Sunday.

Grenade attack hurts Iraq ex-minister: police


Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 , 14:45 AFP — A grenade lobbed at her car in nothern Iraq wounded former housing minister Bayane Dezehi on Tuesday, a police official said.

Iraq's Kirkuk buys electricity from Kurdish region


Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 , 14:21 AFP — Iraq's oil-rich Kirkuk province has started buying electricity from a private supplier in autonomous Kurdistan, its governor said Tuesday, after a spat with Baghdad over power shortages.