Thursday, 25 October, 2007 , 11:50 AFP — The United States is "doing what it can" to obtain the release of eight Turkish troops captured Sunday by Kurdish rebels after an ambush in which 12 other soldiers were killed, a senior US official said here Thursday.

Thursday, 25 October, 2007 , 01:27 AFP — At the very edge of Iraqi Kurdistan, the remaining residents of this tiny village cling desperately onto their land, despite the shelling and threat of an incursion from neighbouring Turkey.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 21:23 AFP — Ten police officers were injured and 100 demonstrators detained when an anti-Kurdish protest of up to 800 people in the Belgian capital turned violent Wednesday, police said.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 20:58 AFP — Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier on Wednesday urged Iraqi authorities to stop Kurdish "terrorists" from using Iraqi land to launch attacks on neighboring Turkey.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 19:36 AFP — A senior US military official said Wednesday he knew of no Turkish air strikes or cross-border incursions into northern Iraq despite reports of such attacks on Kurdish rebels along the border.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 19:33 AFP — Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets along the Iraqi border on Wednesday as the country's National Security Council urged economic sanctions against Iraqi Kurds accused of backing the insurgents.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 19:27 AFP — The United States urged Iraq Wednesday to follow-through on a new promise to shut the offices of Kurdish rebels battling Turkish forces, noting that Baghdad made the same vow 13 months ago.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 18:49 AFP — Turkish strikes against Kurdish rebels on its border with Iraq made little sense without "good intelligence", said US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Wednesday.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 18:39 AFP — Turkey's National Security Council on Wednesday called on the government to apply economic sanctions against the Iraqi Kurds, who are accused of supporting Kurdish separatist fighters in northern Iraq.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 , 18:01 AFP — Cyprus protested to Britain on Wednesday over a partnership deal struck with Turkey that envisages high-level contacts with the breakaway north of the divided island to help end Turkish Cypriot isolation.