Thursday, 17 March, 2011 , 13:55 AFP — A man held in prison without trial for 11 years in Iraq received a five-year jail term on Thursday on "terrorism charges" but will not be freed due to the time already served, a security official said.
Thursday, 17 March, 2011 , 13:23 AFP — A man held in prison without trial for 11 years in Iraq received a five-year jail term on Thursday on "terrorism charges" but will not be freed due to the time already served, a security official said.
Tuesday, 15 March, 2011 , 14:26 AFP — Three Kurdish rebels were killed Tuesday in a battle against army soldiers in southeastern Turkey following a threat from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to end its truce.
Sunday, 13 March, 2011 , 12:17 AFP — Syrian Kurdish blogger Kamal Hussein Sheikho was released Sunday from jail but remains on trial for publishing reports allegedly harmful for the country, a rights group said.
Saturday, 12 March, 2011 , 16:40 AFP — Iran has killed a member of a "hardline religious group" responsible for the murder of four forest guards and arrested another one, the local media reported Saturday.
Thursday, 10 March, 2011 , 19:44 AFP — A Turkish court on Thursday decided to abandon proceedings against a celebrated Kurdish poet and activist allowing him to return after 31 years in exile, a judicial source said.
Thursday, 10 March, 2011 , 17:46 AFP — Dozens of jailed Kurds in Syria started a hunger strike on Thursday in solidarity with rights activists who have mounted the same action in a prison near Damascus, a rights group said.
Sunday, 6 March, 2011 , 08:44 AFP — A protest site in Iraq's Kurdish region was attacked overnight and the offices of an independent Kurdish radio station were ransacked, demonstrators and a press watchdog said on Sunday.
Saturday, 5 March, 2011 , 13:19 AFP — Four Iranian forest guards have been killed in what an official said was a "terrorist act" in the western province of Kurdistan, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 , 15:41 AFP — Energy firm Heritage Oil said on Wednesday it has made a major gas find in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan that is among the largest ever in the country.
