Sunday, 27 August, 2006 , 16:51 AFP — Two near simultaneous suicide car bomb attacks on Kurdish targets killed 10 and wounded 50 more in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a senior police officer said.

Sunday, 27 August, 2006 , 16:40 AFP — Two near simultaneous suicide car bomb attacks on Kurdish targets killed nine and wounded 50 more in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a senior police officer said.

Sunday, 27 August, 2006 , 09:30 AFP — Iraqi insurgents ambushed and killed four Kurdish traffic cops on Sunday, including a young police academy graduate who was on his way to meet his fiancee and arrange their wedding.

Thursday, 24 August, 2006 , 17:06 AFP — Over a thousand books about Pippi Longstocking, the world-famous fictional children's character, translated into Kurdish have been seized by Turkish authorities in Istanbul, the Swedish news agency TT said on Thursday.

Thursday, 24 August, 2006 , 12:15 AFP — "I am a farmer without a farm," sighed Khalid Mohammed Ismail as he sat in a coffee shop in the centre of Dohuk, a province in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 , 15:23 AFP — Kurdish women whose families were decimated in a poison gas attack cursed ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on Wednesday, as they gave harrowing evidence to the third day of his genocide trial.

Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 , 14:52 AFP — A radical Kurdish group said Wednesday that it was behind a series of forest fires that have ravaged large tracts of land in southern and western Turkey since last week.

Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 , 14:36 AFP — Iraq-based Kurdish separatists from the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) have offered a conditional ceasefire to Turkey, one of the rebel group's leaders said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 , 14:21 AFP — A former Kurdish separatist guerrilla told Wednesday of he found the huddled corpses of his brother and nephew dead after a poison gas attack, on the third day of Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide.

Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 , 12:39 AFP — Kurdish women whose families were decimated in a poison gas attack cursed ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on Wednesday, as they gave harrowing evidence to the third day of his genocide trial.