Thursday, 25 September, 2008 , 10:48 AFP — A Turkish court Thursday slapped fines on three journalists for an interview with separatist Kurdish rebels published four years ago, Anatolia news agency reported.

Wednesday, 24 September, 2008 , 14:54 AFP — The Iraqi parliament finally passed a provincial election law on Wednesday, setting a January 31 deadline for a vote to allow more power to be handed to the country's divided communities.

Monday, 22 September, 2008 , 17:11 AFP — A bomb exploded Monday in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey, killing a soldier and wounding two other people, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Friday, 19 September, 2008 , 10:01 AFP — A series of contracts awarded by Kurdish leaders is blocking the passage of a national oil law, prompting Baghdad to use Saddam Hussein era rules for new deals, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said.

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.