Saturday, 16 April, 2011 , 19:36 AFP — One person was wounded as the result of a bomb blast in the western city of Sanandaj in the Iranian Kurdistan province, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
Wednesday, 13 April, 2011 , 15:33 AFP — One village guard died and a child was severely injured in a landmine explosion in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, security sources said.
Tuesday, 12 April, 2011 , 15:16 AFP — Syrian security forces locked down the protest flashpoint town of Banias and raked the nearby village of Baida with gunfire on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP by telephone.
Friday, 8 April, 2011 , 08:46 AFP — A Kurdish rebel was killed Friday in southeastern Turkey as the landmine he was trying to lay exploded, local sources said.
Friday, 8 April, 2011 , 07:01 AFP — US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region Friday for talks with regional president Massud Barzani on security needs after American troops pull out this year.
Thursday, 7 April, 2011 , 19:28 AFP — Syria on Thursday granted citizenship to tens of thousands of Kurds on the same day that a legal committee completed draft legislation to replace nearly five decades of emergency rule.
Thursday, 7 April, 2011 , 14:29 AFP — Syria on Thursday granted citizenship to tens of thousands of Kurds on the same day that a legal committee completed draft legislation to replace nearly five decades of emergency rule.
Thursday, 7 April, 2011 , 12:49 AFP — Syria on Thursday granted citizenship to tens of thousands of Kurds on the same day that a legal committee completed draft legislation to replace nearly five decades of emergency rule.
Thursday, 7 April, 2011 , 11:02 AFP — President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday granted citizenship to Syria's Kurds, the majority in the northeast who have been denied nationality for nearly half a century, said SANA state news agency.
Thursday, 7 April, 2011 , 02:42 AFP — A boy aged around 10 digs in the ground with a pickaxe that is almost his size as another struggles under a huge water container at a construction site in southeastern Turkey.
