Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 16:02 AFP — An Iraqi court on Sunday condemned "Chemical Ali," the most notorious of Saddam Hussein's former henchmen, to death by hanging for genocide over the systematic slaughter of ethnic Kurds in 1988.
Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 15:16 AFP — Kurds flocked into the streets in northern Iraq on Sunday, cheering, honking horns, waving banners and dancing after three of Saddam Hussein's former cohorts were sentenced to death for the mass killing of their people two decades ago.
Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 13:52 AFP — A separatist Kurdish rebel and a civilian were killed in a botched suicide attack in eastern Turkey while fighting elsewhere left five rebels and a government militia member dead, local security sources and officials said Sunday.
Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 12:18 AFP — Turkey wants full EU membership and will not settle with just joining a Mediterranean partnership, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said in an interview published Sunday in a Greek newspaper.
Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 10:22 AFP — The Anfal campaign waged by the ousted regime of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the late 1980s saw tens of thousands of Kurds killed and villages destroyed in an onslaught of air and ground bombardments, mass deportations and chemical attacks.
Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 09:36 AFP — A separatist Kurdish rebel and a civilian were killed in a botched suicide attack in eastern Turkey while fighting elsewhere left three rebels and a government militia member dead, local security sources and officials said Sunday.
Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 07:52 AFP — An Iraqi court is to deliver its verdict on Sunday against six former aides of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, including the notorious "Chemical Ali," over the mass killing of 182,000 Kurds in 1988.
Saturday, 23 June, 2007 , 18:59 AFP — Some 1,500 people held a silent march through Istanbul on Saturday to protest against mounting attacks by separatist Kurdish rebels in the restive southeast of the country, the NTV news channel said.
Saturday, 23 June, 2007 , 14:10 AFP — The Anfal campaign of the late 1980s, for which six former aides of Saddam Hussein are on trial, capped decades of hostility between Iraqi Kurds and the late dictator's regime.
Saturday, 23 June, 2007 , 08:01 AFP — Turkish soldiers killed two Kurdish rebels in fighting in the eastern province of Tunceli, the governor's office said Saturday.
