Friday, 14 August, 2009 , 14:08 AFP — Kurdish rebels waging a separatist campaign against Turkey called on the government Friday to accept a peace plan their jailed leader is due to announce, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported.

Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 , 08:17 AFP — A senior member of Turkey's ruling party has proposed that Kurdish rebel leaders be exiled and remaining militants pardoned as part of efforts to end the 25-year Kurdish insurgency, in remarks published Wednesday.

Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 , 04:06 AFP — A new magazine in Iraq's Kurdistan region has caused furore among conservative Muslims with a rousing call for Jews to leave Israel -- and come back to Iraq.

Monday, 10 August, 2009 , 19:12 AFP — An Iraqi court has imposed six year prison terms on two men for planning to kill the editor of a Kurdish magazine which fights corruption, the publication said on Monday.

Saturday, 8 August, 2009 , 10:33 AFP — A Turkish soldier and a Kurdish rebel have been killed in a clash in southern Turkey, the Anatolia press agency said in a report Saturday.

Friday, 7 August, 2009 , 16:59 AFP — The two main parties in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have a reduced majority in the regional assembly after their joint vote fell in the July 25 poll, the electoral commission said on Friday.

Thursday, 6 August, 2009 , 14:14 AFP — Two Kurdish rebels, one of them a woman, were killed Thursday in clashes with Turkish security forces in the country's restive southeast near Iraq, local security sources said.

Wednesday, 5 August, 2009 , 11:39 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday broke a two-year embargo to meet the head of the country's main Kurdish party on efforts to end a 25-year Kurdish insurgency, emerging from the talks with "hope for the future".

Tuesday, 4 August, 2009 , 09:46 AFP — Two Kurdish rebels have been killed in fighting with paramilitary troops in eastern Turkey, security sources said Tuesday.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 18:40 AFP — Iraq's top court on Sunday jailed former deputy premier Tareq Aziz and Saddam Hussein's hatchet-man "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid for seven years each for expelling Kurds from northern Iraq almost three decades ago, state television said.