Sunday, 7 January, 2007 , 01:49 AFP — Proceedings resume Monday in the trial of six former Iraqi officials charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for the mass killing of 182,000 Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s -- minus their executed co-accused Saddam Hussein.

Saturday, 16 December, 2006 , 12:19 AFP — A Finnish sociologist was detained in Turkey's mainly Kurdish populated east and will be deported Saturday, local security sources and diplomats said.

Thursday, 14 December, 2006 , 11:59 AFP — The first shipment of 13 trucks of Iranian produced kerosene arrived in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah on Thursday, officials said.

Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 , 17:45 AFP — US President George W. Bush on Wednesday discussed the way forward in Iraq with its two top Kurd leaders as he ended a round of high-profile consultations on overhauling his war-fighting strategy.

Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 , 17:26 AFP — US President George W. Bush and top Kurd leaders in Iraq discussed a possible overhaul of US strategy there as well as plans for handling oil revenues, the White House said on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 12 December, 2006 , 15:38 AFP — Three more bodies were on Tuesday pulled from the wreckage of a building that housed families of Turkish soldiers here, bringing the death toll from Monday's explosion to eight, officials said.

Sunday, 10 December, 2006 , 13:59 AFP — Syria's High Security Court on Sunday sentenced a Syrian to 12 years in prison for membership of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, a human rights group said.

Sunday, 10 December, 2006 , 09:51 AFP — The separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could call off a two-month-old unilateral ceasefire with Turkey if Ankara continues to crack down on the rebels and mistreat its Kurdish community, a senior rebel commander said Sunday.

Saturday, 9 December, 2006 , 11:22 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed and 11 others were injured in a landmine explosion in southeast Turkey blamed on the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), local security sources said Saturday.

Friday, 8 December, 2006 , 15:45 AFP — Turkey's army command Friday blamed Kurdish separatist rebels for the crash of a military helicopter in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast which killed one soldier and injured five others.