Thursday, 12 October, 2006 , 15:04 AFP — Washington welcomes a ceasefire decision by Iraq-based separatist Kurdish rebels, but still sees the militants as a security threat to NATO ally Turkey, a special US envoy said here Thursday.
Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 14:19 AFP — Kurdish women told Wednesday how they had witnessed savage rapes, murders and other horrors in Saddam Hussein's death camps, as the ousted Iraqi leader's genocide trial continued.
Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 12:20 AFP — Kurdish women told Wednesday how they had witnessed savage rapes and other horrors in Saddam Hussein's death camps, as the ousted Iraqi leader's genocide trial continued.
Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 10:33 AFP — Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein clashed with his judge and was expelled from court Tuesday after a Kurdish woman told of the horrors she had seen in the former regime's brutal death camps.
Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 09:02 AFP — Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein sat impassive in the dock Tuesday as a Kurdish villager told the genocide trial about the horrors of life and death in the former regime's brutal death camps.
Monday, 9 October, 2006 , 17:22 AFP — A Dutch businessman, convicted for having supplied chemicals used in gas attacks on Kurdish villages in Iraq in the 1980s, requested on Monday that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein be called as a witness at his appeal.
Monday, 9 October, 2006 , 13:40 AFP — Kurdish witnesses accused Saddam Hussein on Monday of cramming their starving families into disease-ridden death camps and casting the bodies of the fallen into mass graves.
Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 14:07 AFP — Iraq's Yazidis, a minority religious sect who have been branded devil worshippers by suspicious neighbours, cancelled an annual pilgrimage Saturday over fears for devotees' safety.
Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 11:13 AFP — Assassinated Kurdish lawmaker Mohammed Redha Mahmud was laid to rest on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, mourned as a victim of the country's "blind sectarian war".
Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 06:48 AFP — Around 150 clandestine Kurdish immigrants landed overnight in Calabria, southern Italy, sea rescue services said Saturday.
