Tuesday, 31 October, 2006 , 13:24 AFP — Iraqi troops dragged prisoners to a pit dug out of the desert sands and shot them two-by-two under the lights of a waiting bulldozer, a survivor of Saddam Hussein's alleged genocide said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 , 19:53 AFP — Cyprus on Tuesday described as "shocking" a report by a US-based group that said some Greek Cypriots who were captured by Turkish forces in 1974 were used as guinea pigs in biochemical laboratories.

Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 , 13:20 AFP — Three people were killed and two soldiers were injured in clashes in southeastern Turkey between military forces and separatist Kurdish rebels, the Turkish army said Tuesday.

Monday, 23 October, 2006 , 12:54 AFP — A Dutch appeals court said Monday that it would study the possibility of hearing former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a witness in the appeals case of a Dutch businessman, convicted for supplying chemicals used in gas attacks on Kurdish villages in Iraq in the 1980s.

Saturday, 21 October, 2006 , 14:33 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey have released the son of a provincial official from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) after keeping him hostage for almost a month, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.

Friday, 20 October, 2006 , 09:52 AFP — More than three million Turkish Kurds have signed a declaration proclaiming loyalty to jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, whom Ankara sees as the country's number one terrorist, activists said Friday.

Thursday, 19 October, 2006 , 10:20 AFP — Guards cut off the water supplies to Kurdish detainees in a desert prison deep in Iraq's south, a witness told the court in Thursday's session of Saddam Hussein's genocide trial.

Wednesday, 18 October, 2006 , 13:29 AFP — Saddam Hussein's troops drove terrified Kurdish villagers into the desert and gunned them down by the truckload, witnesses told the ousted Iraqi leader's genocide trial Wednesday.

Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 , 15:31 AFP — A court in Maastricht, southern Netherlands, on Tuesday rejected a Turkish extradition request for Nedim Seven, sought by Ankara because he allegedly carried out deadly attacks for the PKK, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.

Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 , 09:50 AFP — At least 30 people died every day in Saddam Hussein's grim prisons, a Kurdish witness said Tuesday as the stormy trial resumed of the ousted Iraqi president and six others on genocide charges.