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.
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.
