Thursday, 11 January, 2007 , 17:01 AFP — US troops raided an Iranian consulate in Iraq on Thursday and arrested six employees, as Washington vowed to crack down on purported Iranian aggression in the war-torn country.

Thursday, 11 January, 2007 , 16:17 AFP — The Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq condemned Thursday a US raid on the Iranian consulate in its capital and demanded the immediate release of all the prisoners taken.

Thursday, 11 January, 2007 , 16:15 AFP — Turkey Thursday welcomed US President George W. Bush's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq and hailed Washington's declared commitment to help curb Turkish Kurd rebels based in its turbulent southern neighbor.

Thursday, 11 January, 2007 , 14:03 AFP — Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" moved centre stage in Iraq's genocide trial Thursday, occupying the executed dictator's chair in court and confessing that he ordered thousands of Kurds to be forced out of their homes.

Thursday, 11 January, 2007 , 09:25 AFP — Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" moved centre stage in Iraq's genocide trial on Thursday, sliding into the hot seat left vacant by the former dictator who was executed last month.

Tuesday, 9 January, 2007 , 11:09 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Tuesday of "very dangerous developments" in the region if Iraqis fail to avoid "a blood feud" after Saddam Hussein's hanging and reconcile on the status of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

Monday, 8 January, 2007 , 15:21 AFP — The shadow of Saddam Hussein loomed large over the genocide trial of six former Iraqi regime officials when it resumed Monday, with the executed former dictator's chair conspicuously empty and his purported voice being heard on an audio tape.

Monday, 8 January, 2007 , 12:43 AFP — Saddam Hussein okayed the use of chemical weapons on crowds of Kurds in the 1980s, prosecutors claimed Monday, producing an audio tape purportedly containing the voice of the executed dictator.

Monday, 8 January, 2007 , 12:41 AFP — Three Kurdish brigades from the Iraqi defence ministry will be sent to Baghdad as part of the revised security plan aimed at restoring stability there, a top Kurdish official said Monday.

Monday, 8 January, 2007 , 10:40 AFP — The prosecutor at the genocide trial of six former Iraqi regime officials played video footage on Monday it said showed key accused Ali Hassan al-Majid threatening to bomb the Kurds using chemical weapons.