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.

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.