Saturday, 17 February, 2007 , 17:06 AFP — Syrian authorities have released the deputy head of the banned Kurdish political party Yakiti, who was arrested nearly two months ago, a human rights group said Saturday.

Saturday, 17 February, 2007 , 15:18 AFP — Turkey's army chief has accused the two main Kurdish factions in neighbouring northern Iraq of supporting Turkish Kurd rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.

Thursday, 15 February, 2007 , 17:47 AFP — Three off-duty guards working for Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari were killed in an ambush in northern Iraq late Thursday, a police officer said.

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.