Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 12:14 AFP — Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein said Iraqis should not feel guilty for the Kurds who were killed under his regime, at his trial hearing Monday on charges of genocide.

Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 11:52 AFP — A former female Kurdish guerrilla told the court trying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide Monday how she witnessed first-hand the horror of gas attacks against her people in the late 1980s.

Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 08:22 AFP — A former female Kurdish guerrilla told the court trying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide Monday how she witnessed first-hand the horror of gas attacks against her people in the late 1980s.

Sunday, 10 September, 2006 , 12:17 AFP — Turkish police said Sunday they had captured two Kurdish militants suspected of being behind two bomb blasts in Istanbul earlier this year, along with five alleged collaborators.

Saturday, 9 September, 2006 , 17:29 AFP — Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi learned this week as his film "Half Moon" premiered at the Toronto film festival that Iranian authorities had banned its release back home, he told AFP late Friday.

Friday, 8 September, 2006 , 16:12 AFP — The head of an Iraqi Kurdish party with close links to Turkey's PKK guerrillas has been arrested, a security official said Friday, a month after Iraq promised Turkey it would crack down on the rebels.

Thursday, 7 September, 2006 , 09:49 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels killed a Turkish soldier and wounded another in an armed attack in the southeastern province of Siirt, the governor's office there said.

Tuesday, 5 September, 2006 , 14:27 AFP — A 10-year-old boy was shot dead Tuesday in a clash between Kurdish rebels and Turkish soldiers in the country's restive southeast, the local governor's office said.

Monday, 4 September, 2006 , 19:37 AFP — Seventy-five Syrian Kurds arrested by security forces in the northern city of Aleppo on March 20 have been freed, the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said Monday.

Monday, 4 September, 2006 , 15:21 AFP — Iraqi security forces found Monday the remains of 18 Kurdish men, women and children whom they believe were buried alive in a mass grave during the former regime of Saddam Hussein.