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.

Friday, 14 March, 2008 , 12:51 AFP — Norwegian oil company DNO International said Friday it had revised an agreement with Kurdish authorities on splitting oil production in two licensing areas in northern Iraq.

Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 17:16 AFP — A presumed former lover of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has been arrested in Germany on charges of belonging to the banned PKK, authorities said Thursday.

Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 15:36 AFP — Turkish troops killed 10 Kurdish rebels, among them a woman, in a security operation in the country's southeast near the Iraqi border, the Turkish army said Thursday.

Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 13:28 AFP — Iranian security forces have killed members of two "terrorist" cells who crossed the Iraqi border to a Kurdish-populated province ahead of parliamentary polls, the Mehr news agency reported Thursday.

Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 12:02 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday the government would launch a Kurdish-language television channel and invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects in the Kurdish-majority southeast.

Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 09:10 AFP — The Iranian military on Thursday subjected three Iraqi border villages to an early-morning barrage of shelling, causing no injuries or damage but scaring residents, an Iraqi official said.

Monday, 10 March, 2008 , 16:52 AFP — A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car outside a luxury hotel in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah on Monday, killing one person and wounding 13, Sulaimaniyah's governor said.