Wednesday, 26 September, 2007 , 10:59 AFP — Turkey and Iraq agreed Wednesday on an accord that would reportedly allow Turkish forces to cross into Iraq to pursue separatist Kurdish rebels, officials and media reports said.

Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 , 14:21 AFP — A soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a landmine blast Tuesday at a paramilitary police station blamed on separatist Kurdish rebels, an official statement said.

Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 , 11:41 AFP — A bomb blast at a paramilitary police station killed a soldier and wounded two others Tuesday in a restive mainly Kurdish province in eastern Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 , 08:47 AFP — Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani arrived in Ankara Tuesday to discuss a planned security cooperation agreement aimed at combatting Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge in northern Iraq.

Monday, 24 September, 2007 , 11:30 AFP — Iran on Monday confirmed it had closed its border with the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan in protest at the arrest last week of an Iranian national.

Monday, 24 September, 2007 , 09:42 AFP — Iran on Monday closed its border with Iraq's northern Kurdish region in protest at the arrest of an Iranian by the US military, a Kurdish official told AFP.

Monday, 24 September, 2007 , 09:04 AFP — Iran on Monday closed all entry points on the border with Iraq's northern Kurdish region in protest at the arrest of an Iranian by the US military, a Kurdish official told AFP.

Monday, 24 September, 2007 , 06:44 AFP — Kurdish separatists derailed a freight train in an attack in eastern Turkey that wounded four engineers, a security source said Monday.

Sunday, 23 September, 2007 , 08:04 AFP — Iran has confirmed for the first time it has been firing artillery shells on camps of Kurdish militants inside northern Iraq, saying the local authorities had not listened to its warnings.

Saturday, 22 September, 2007 , 10:21 AFP — Nine Kurdish rebels have been killed in two separate clashes with the army in Turkey's restive southeast, the military said Saturday.