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.

Wednesday, 3 September, 2008 , 12:04 AFP — Two Turkish troops and four Kurdish rebels were killed in fresh fighting in the country's volatile east, security sources said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 3 September, 2008 , 08:40 AFP — Kurdish separatist rebels ambushed a Turkish military vehicle in the east of the country killing two troops and wounding nine, security sources said Wednesday.