Monday, 23 March, 2009 , 17:38 AFP — Turkish police Monday arrested a senior military officer in connection with an investigation into the summary killing of Kurds in the southeast of the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Wednesday, 11 March, 2009 , 09:13 AFP — Iranian shelling of Kurdish border villages in northern Iraq left one child dead, a local official told AFP on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 10 March, 2009 , 05:07 AFP — A French film-maker, whose new movie depicts a Kurdish refugee hoping to swim the Channel to Britain, has angered the government by comparing its policies on illegal immigrants to Nazi-occupied France's repression of Jews.

Monday, 9 March, 2009 , 16:40 AFP — Excavators unearthed fragments of bone and cloth during a dig in southeast Turkey on Monday as part of a probe into alleged extrajudicial killings of Kurds, a judicial source said.

Monday, 9 March, 2009 , 15:08 AFP — Excavation work began Monday in Turkey's southeast as part of an investigation into allegations of extrajudicial killings of Kurds by security forces, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Friday, 6 March, 2009 , 10:40 AFP — About 375 Kurdish militants were either killed or wounded in Turkish cross-border military action in neighbouring Iraq since October, Anatolia news agency quoted an army spokesman as saying Friday.

Monday, 2 March, 2009 , 15:18 AFP — An Iraqi court condemned Saddam Hussein's notorious henchman "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid to his third death sentence on Monday over the murder of Shiite Muslims 10 years ago.

Sunday, 1 March, 2009 , 11:48 AFP — An Iranian appeal court has sentenced a Kurdish political activist to death for taking part in armed acts in the western province of Kordestan, his lawyer said on Sunday.

Friday, 27 February, 2009 , 11:07 AFP — About 20 Kurdish militants have died in internecine clashes between rival rebel factions based in northern Iraq, a Turkish military spokesman was quoted as saying Friday.

Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 , 19:24 AFP — The two main Kurdish parties have completed the unification of their government in the autonomous region of northern Iraq, one of the main groups announced on Tuesday.