Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 , 18:35 AFP — A Turkish Kurd who has been in detention at Zurich airport since December 2005 has gone on hunger strike in protest at his proposed extradition to Turkey, a Swiss human rights group said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 , 17:46 AFP — The former head of Saddam Hussein's military intelligence service took the stand Tuesday in his war crimes trial, protesting that his role was only to gather information not bomb villages.

Saturday, 10 February, 2007 , 02:27 AFP — Ten Kurds have been placed under investigation in France after being arrested on suspicion of money-laundering on behalf of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), officials said on Friday.

Friday, 9 February, 2007 , 18:23 AFP — Five Kurds from Turkey have been placed under investigation in France after being arrested on suspicion of money-laundering on behalf of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), officials said on Friday.

Friday, 9 February, 2007 , 14:45 AFP — US and Iraqi forces clamped down on flashpoint districts of Baghdad Friday, focusing on insurgent and militia hotbeds as a joint operation to restore order in the capital lumbered into action.

Friday, 9 February, 2007 , 13:37 AFP — An Iraqi consortium has completed the first stage of what was billed Friday as the billion-dollar Nishan Trade Center in Arbil, northern Iraq and is to boast three 25-storey office towers.

Friday, 9 February, 2007 , 12:40 AFP — US helicopter gunships killed five Kurdish policemen -- normally staunch allies of American forces -- on Friday, during a clash in the volatile northern city of Mosul, a military statement said.

Tuesday, 6 February, 2007 , 23:57 AFP — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged her Turkish counterpart Tuesday not to resort to military action against Kurdish rebels harboring in neighboring Iraq, a senior official said.

Monday, 5 February, 2007 , 16:30 AFP — Thirteen Kurds from Turkey were arrested near Paris on Monday on suspicion of money-laundering on behalf of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), police said.

Sunday, 4 February, 2007 , 21:21 AFP — Twelve young Kurds, including three minors, were sentenced on Sunday to jail terms of between two-and-half and seven-and-a-half years for "membership of a secret organisation", a human rights organisation said.