Friday, 1 February, 2008 , 12:09 AFP — Eight Turkish soldiers captured and held hostage by Kurdish rebels for two weeks appeared before a military court Friday on charges of insubordination, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 , 10:13 AFP — Iran is probing the death of a Kurdish student who the authorities said committed suicide under detention in the northwestern city of Sanandaj, the judiciary said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 , 05:25 AFP — Iraq has stopped crude oil exports to South Korea in protest at an exploration deal involving Korean firms in Iraqi Kurdistan, officials said Tuesday.

Sunday, 27 January, 2008 , 20:18 AFP — The Turkish military said its warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in neighbouring northern Iraq Tuesday.

Monday, 21 January, 2008 , 11:55 AFP — A Turkish court Monday charged three more suspects in connection with a deadly car bomb attack here earlier this month, judicial officials said.

Friday, 18 January, 2008 , 14:35 AFP — The death toll from a car bomb attack in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city this month climbed to seven on Friday as a teenager died from his injuries in hospital, his school said.

Friday, 18 January, 2008 , 12:37 AFP — Turkish warplanes destroyed about 60 Kurdish rebel positions in neighbouring Iraq in a bombing raid earlier this week, the military said Friday.

Friday, 18 January, 2008 , 11:29 AFP — Ten Kurdish rebels have turned themselves in to the authorities in southeast Turkey, bringing to 21 the number of militants to surrender in the past month, the Turkish army said Friday.

Tuesday, 15 January, 2008 , 14:36 AFP — Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday in the latest in a series of cross-border air strikes, Turkey's military and northern Iraqi security forces said.

Tuesday, 15 January, 2008 , 12:36 AFP — The Turkish military said its warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in neighbouring northern Iraq Tuesday.