Thursday, 20 November, 2008 , 10:12 AFP — The United States, Iraq, and Turkey have condemned the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as a "terrorist organisation" and formed a joint committee to combat them, the US embassy said Thursday.
Thursday, 20 November, 2008 , 09:26 AFP — A Kurdish mayor in southeastern Turkey was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for urging support for separatist Kurdish rebels in an interview with a French news channel last year.
Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 , 21:00 AFP — Three Turkish soldiers and four Kurdish rebels were killed Wednesday in fighting in the country's east and southeast, security officials and media reports said.
Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 , 16:56 AFP — Iraq on Wednesday repatriated the remains of 150 Kurds killed in the 1980s during Saddam Hussein's rule and buried in a mass grave outside the Shiite holy city of Najaf.
Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 , 15:24 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed and five others were wounded Wednesday in clashes with Kurdish rebels in the mountainous east of the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 , 11:54 AFP — Iraq, Turkey and the United States agreed Wednesday to form a joint committee to combat the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a guerilla movement based along the mountainous Iraq-Turkey border.
Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 , 08:12 AFP — An Iranian Kurdish journalist has been arrested on undisclosed charges in the city of Sanandaj in western Iran, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 , 16:53 AFP — Iranian security forces have killed several Kurdish rebels from Turkey in western Iran, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 , 16:48 AFP — Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki stepped up a war of words with the country's Kurdish parties on Wednesday over pro-government militias that could undermine the parties' power.
Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 , 15:51 AFP — Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki stepped up a war of words with the country's Kurdish parties on Wednesday over pro-government armed groups that could undermine the parties' power.
