Saturday, 22 March, 2008 , 11:28 AFP — Dozens of people were injured and scores detained as police used truncheons and tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several Turkish cities Saturday, media reports said.

Friday, 21 March, 2008 , 12:06 AFP — Tens of thousands of Kurds celebrated Newroz, their new year, across Turkey Friday under tight security less than a month after a Turkish army incursion against Kurdish rebel bases in neighbouring northern Iraq.

Friday, 21 March, 2008 , 10:00 AFP — Syrian police killed three Kurds in clashes which broke out as the Kurds celebrated their New Year at Qameshli near the border with Turkey, an official of the Kurdish Yakiti party told AFP Friday.

Wednesday, 19 March, 2008 , 14:43 AFP — The Iranian military on Wednesday shelled seven Iraqi border villages, causing no injuries or damage but terrifying residents, an Iraqi official said.

Tuesday, 18 March, 2008 , 15:19 AFP — Visiting US Vice President Dick Cheney urged a top Iraqi Kurd leader on Tuesday to help forge a long-term US-Iraq security agreement and pass laws seen as key to national reconciliation.

Sunday, 16 March, 2008 , 16:39 AFP — Thousands of candles were lit in central Stockholm on Sunday in memory of around 5,000 Iraqi Kurds from Halabja massacred 20 years ago in a chemical attack blamed on Saddam Hussein's forces.

Sunday, 16 March, 2008 , 12:27 AFP — Iraqi Kurds mourned on Sunday the deaths of around 5,000 villagers from Halabja who were massacred 20 years ago in chemical attacks blamed on Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraq war.

Sunday, 16 March, 2008 , 01:44 AFP — Ismail Abdallah Rashid was buried two days ago in the northern Iraqi village of Halabja -- his body finally succumbed to the effects of gas attacks carried out by Saddam Hussein's forces on this day 20 years ago.

Saturday, 15 March, 2008 , 01:34 AFP — The Turkish government's pledge of more investment and television broadcasts for its disenchanted Kurds is unlikely to end a long-running bloody insurgency as it fails to address key Kurdish demands for ethnic acceptance and political rights, analysts say.

Friday, 14 March, 2008 , 17:37 AFP — Italian authorities have arrested the alleged treasurer of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) at Rome airport, the Corriere della Sera daily reported Friday.