Tuesday, 4 December, 2007 , 15:46 AFP — Six Kurdish rebels and a soldier were killed Tuesday in fighting in southeastern Turkey near the Iraqi border, the Turkish military said.

Tuesday, 4 December, 2007 , 11:48 AFP — Two former lawyers for jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan face up to 15 years in prison on charges of belonging to the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a report said Tuesday.

Monday, 3 December, 2007 , 14:29 AFP — Arab and Kurdish parties in Iraq's oil city of Kirkuk have clinched a deal under which Arabs will end their boycott of the provincial council in return for a more equal sharing of power, an official said on Monday.

Sunday, 2 December, 2007 , 15:53 AFP — A leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) acknowledged on Sunday that rebel fighters had come under attack by Turkish helicopters inside Iraq but insisted they had suffered no casualties.

Sunday, 2 December, 2007 , 12:09 AFP — A leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party on Sunday acknowledged the Turkish military's attack on the group's bases inside Iraq after initially denying it, but said there had been no casualties.

Saturday, 1 December, 2007 , 20:09 AFP — The White House withheld comment Saturday on reports that Turkey had undertaken military operations against the armed Kurdish separatist movement PKK in northern Iraq.

Saturday, 1 December, 2007 , 18:43 AFP — Turkey made good on its threat to strike Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq Saturday, saying it inflicted "heavy losses" on the armed separatist movement PKK with cross-border airstrikes and artillery.

Saturday, 1 December, 2007 , 18:09 AFP — Here are the key developments since Turkey threatened military action against the bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

Saturday, 1 December, 2007 , 17:37 AFP — The US military in Baghdad said on Saturday it had no reports of Turkish military operations in northern Iraq.

Saturday, 1 December, 2007 , 17:07 AFP — A senior leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Saturday denied claims by the Turkish army that it had attacked the guerrillas in northern Iraq with air strikes and artillery.