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Qaeda claims attack on Kurdish compound in Iraq


Monday, 14 May, 2007 , 10:25 AFP An Al-Qaeda front group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur which killed 50 people.

Suicide attack on Kurdish officials in Iraq kills 50


Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 15:00 AFP A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people, many of them Kurdish officials, on Sunday when he ploughed an explosives-laden SUV into administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, officials said.

Attack on Kurdish officials in Iraq kills 35


Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 13:22 AFP A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people on Sunday when he ploughed his explosives-laden SUV into local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, officials said.

Attack on Kurdish officials in Iraq kills 32


Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 11:38 AFP A suicide bomber killed 32 people on Sunday when he ploughed his explosives-laden SUV into local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Mahmur, officials said.

Suicide attack on Kurdish officials kills 32


Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 11:24 AFP A suicide car bomb attack on Sunday against a meeting of mainly Kurdish officials in northern Iraq left 32 people dead and wounded 115, Kurdish regional health minister Zirian Abdel Rahman said.

Bomb attack on Iraqi Kurdish parties kills 10


Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 10:31 AFP A suicide car bomb hit a compound housing the local headquarters of two Kurdish political parties in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60, police said.

Bomb attack on Iraqi Kurdish parties kill 10


Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 10:08 AFP A suicide car bomb attack in northern Iraq Sunday on a compound housing a police post and the local headquarters of two Kurdish political parties killed 10 people and injured 60, police said.

Thousands rally for 'poisoned' leader of Turkish Kurds


Saturday, 12 May, 2007 , 14:41 AFP Several thousand Kurds protested in the French city of Strasbourg on Saturday against the alleged poisoning of Abdullah Ocalan by the Turkish authorities and demanded that the jailed Kurdish leader be examined by independent doctors.

Turkey's Kurdish party fumes at controversial electoral bill


Saturday, 12 May, 2007 , 11:23 AFP Turkey's main Kurdish party called on the president Saturday to veto a controversial bill widely seen as a bid to hinder Kurdish politicians seeking parliamentary seats in the July 22 elections.

Turkey condemned over filmmaker biography at Europe court


Thursday, 10 May, 2007 , 15:36 AFP A Turkish publisher who had been fined for publishing a biography of Kurdish filmmaker Yilmaz Guney won his case against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights Thursday.