Sunday, 26 August, 2007 , 15:15 AFP — A US air strike on two Kurdish police outposts on Sunday killed four policemen and wounded eight others in the restive province of Diyala in what seems to be a case of "friendly fire," officials said.

Saturday, 25 August, 2007 , 11:35 AFP — Two soldiers and 10 Kurdish rebels were killed in fighting in southeast Turkey Saturday, close to the Syrian and Iraqi borders, the Turkish army said.

Thursday, 23 August, 2007 , 04:26 AFP — Heshw Mohammed tried to kill herself three times when her father would not let her marry the man she loved, swallowing tablets and surviving only because her stomach was pumped.

Monday, 20 August, 2007 , 15:21 AFP — Two Iranian Kurdish journalists sentenced to death have been on hunger strike in prison for more than a month, their lawyer told AFP on Monday.

Monday, 20 August, 2007 , 14:41 AFP — Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds have fled remote mountain villages near the country's eastern frontier as Iranian gunners target separatist guerrilla bases, local officials said Monday.

Monday, 20 August, 2007 , 13:28 AFP — Two Iranian Kurdish journalists sentenced to death have been on hunger strike in prison for over a month, a group defending prisoners' rights said on Monday.

Sunday, 19 August, 2007 , 19:17 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed Sunday when gunmen ambushed a military vehicle in the restive southern province of Osmaniye, the local governor said.

Saturday, 18 August, 2007 , 14:19 AFP — A Turkish soldier and two Kurdish rebels were killed in a clash in Hakkari province in the restive southeast of the country, the local governor's office said in a statement Saturday.

Friday, 17 August, 2007 , 15:19 AFP — Leaders of Iraq's disenchanted Sunni Arab community on Friday slammed the new Shiite and Kurdish alliance formed to salvage Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's national unity government.

Thursday, 16 August, 2007 , 15:26 AFP — Iraq's top Shiite and Kurdish leaders formed a new political alliance on Thursday to salvage Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's embattled government, but without rival Sunni leaders.