Thursday, 25 October, 2007 , 14:12 AFP — A senior US official rejected Thursday an Iraqi argument that it was unable to round up Kurdish rebel leaders who use remote bases in northern Iraq to launch cross-border raids on Turkish troops.
Thursday, 25 October, 2007 , 14:07 AFP — The separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said Thursday through a pro-Kurdish news agency that eight Turkish soldiers it captured last Sunday are being held in Turkish territory.
Thursday, 25 October, 2007 , 12:02 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that any decision to launch a military incursion into northern Iraq was for Ankara alone, as he dismissed a US call for restraint.
Thursday, 25 October, 2007 , 12:00 AFP — The Turkish military said Thursday it had thwarted an attack by "a large group" of Kurdish rebels against an army outpost on the Iraqi border.
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.
