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.

Friday, 8 December, 2006 , 13:03 AFP — The president of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region issued a strongly worded rebuke Friday of the Iraq Study Group's report on the situation in Iraq and recommendations for US policy, describing it as "unrealistic and inappropriate".

Thursday, 7 December, 2006 , 19:50 AFP — The US Treasury Thursday blacklisted five men, including a Kurdish militant living in Oslo known as Mullah Krekar and a Moroccan-born Swede, for aiding terrorism by Al-Qaeda and other groups.

Thursday, 7 December, 2006 , 15:14 AFP — The prime minister of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region said on Thursday talks with the central government on budgets and oil had failed, further threatening the unity of the fragile country.

Thursday, 7 December, 2006 , 13:08 AFP — A prominent leader of the rebel Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) announced Thursday that he had broken away to form his own party with several other senior members.

Wednesday, 6 December, 2006 , 07:41 AFP — Two roadside blasts blamed on the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have killed three soldiers in southeast Turkey, officials said on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 5 December, 2006 , 12:58 AFP — Five Kurdish rebels were killed in clashes with the army in southeast Turkey despite a ceasefire the militants called in October, the Turkish general staff said in a statement here Tuesday.

Tuesday, 28 November, 2006 , 15:50 AFP — A forensic expert testified in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial on Tuesday showing slides of mass graves and pictures of skulls and skeletons of Iraqi Kurds shot dead and gassed in 1988.