Thursday, 23 November, 2006 , 17:33 AFP — Two Kurdish rebels were killed Thursday in southeast Turkey as the army pursued militants despite a ceasefire the rebels called last month, officials said Thursday.

Thursday, 23 November, 2006 , 10:57 AFP — Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said Thursday that a planned referendum over the future of Iraq's ethnically disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk could fuel more turmoil in the country because the Kurds have upset Kirkuk's demographics.

Thursday, 23 November, 2006 , 10:28 AFP — The United States government is in contact with Kurds struggling against Iran, a top rebel leader of the anti-Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) told AFP in an interview.

Wednesday, 22 November, 2006 , 15:14 AFP — A Norwegian appeal court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling from 2005 that Norway can legally expel Mullah Krekar, the founder of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, to Iraq.

Monday, 20 November, 2006 , 04:36 AFP — The early morning chill had yet to leave the stone hut deep in northern Iraq's Qandil mountains as the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party gathered for their morning discussion on politics.

Saturday, 18 November, 2006 , 20:09 AFP — The explosion reverberated across the mountain valley after the rocket-propelled grenade crashed into the hilltop, immediately followed by the staccato of a light machine gun.

Friday, 17 November, 2006 , 14:24 AFP — Six Kurdish rebels and a soldier died in clashes in southeast Turkey as the army pursued militants despite a ceasefire the rebels called last month, military sources said Friday.

Friday, 17 November, 2006 , 14:10 AFP — High in the mountains of northern Iraq, fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) voiced defiance Friday over threats by Iraqi and Turkish officials to root them out of their rear bases.

Friday, 17 November, 2006 , 13:04 AFP — Four Kurdish rebels and a soldier have been killed in clashes in Turkey's southeast as the army pursues militants despite a ceasefire they called last month, military sources said Friday.

Thursday, 16 November, 2006 , 15:16 AFP — Iraq should take "concrete steps" to curb the acivities of Turkish Kurd rebels who enjoy safe haven on its territory, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his visiting Iraqi counterpart on Thursday.