Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 , 15:31 AFP — The Turkish government will ask parliament to extend by one year its mandate to order military strikes against separatist Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, the deputy prime minister said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 16 September, 2008 , 12:46 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish party rejected charges Tuesday that it was linked to separatist Kurdish rebels, in a court case in which it risks being outlawed, its chairman said.

Monday, 15 September, 2008 , 13:18 AFP — A Damascus military court jailed 50 Kurds for between four and six months after a 2005 protest calling for a probe into the death of a Kurdish scholar, a Syrian human rights group said on Monday.

Sunday, 14 September, 2008 , 11:57 AFP — An explosion in southeast Turkey blamed on separatist Kurdish rebels has killed one soldier and wounded two others, the military said Sunday.

Saturday, 13 September, 2008 , 10:00 AFP — A roadside bomb attack targeted a patrol of Kurdish peshmerga forces northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, killing six of them including a top commander, an Iraqi Kurdish official told AFP.

Tuesday, 9 September, 2008 , 13:27 AFP — The speaker of the Iraqi parliament Mahmud Mashhadani urged MPs on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over provincial elections and oil-rich Kirkuk as they returned from a four-week summer recess.

Monday, 8 September, 2008 , 13:30 AFP — The speaker of northern Iraq's regional parliament warned Baghdad on Monday about the purchase of high-tech US military hardware, amid concerns the weapons could be used against them.

Sunday, 7 September, 2008 , 18:06 AFP — Six members of the security forces were killed Sunday in a clash with separatist Kurdish rebels in the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari near the Iraqi border, the local governor's office said.

Sunday, 7 September, 2008 , 16:48 AFP — Three members of a government-armed Kurdish militia were killed Sunday in a clash with separatist rebels in southeastern Turkey near the Iraqi border, a security source said.

Saturday, 6 September, 2008 , 13:24 AFP — The Syrian authorities have arrested three people, including the brother of the head of a banned Kurdish political group who has been in detention since July, a human rights group said on Saturday.