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Kurdish rebel group claims weekend blasts in Turkey


Monday, 28 August, 2006 , 16:31 AFP A Kurdish armed separatist group claimed responsibility on Monday for a blast that tore apart a bus in a Turkish resort at the weekend, injuring 21 people including 10 British tourists.

US forces arrest top Kurdish Al-Qaeda 'bomb-maker'


Monday, 28 August, 2006 , 13:24 AFP An alleged Al-Qaeda militant suspected of bombing the office of President Jalal Talabani's party in northern Iraq has been arrested near the oil hub of Kirkuk, the US military said.

At least 11 killed in suicide attacks on Iraqi Kurds


Sunday, 27 August, 2006 , 17:09 AFP Three suicide car bomb attacks on Kurdish targets killed 11 and wounded 66 more in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a senior police officer said.

At least 10 killed in suicide attacks on Iraqi Kurds


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.

At least nine killed in suicide attacks on Iraqi Kurds


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.

Iraqi insurgents murder four Kurdish traffic cops


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.

Turkey seizes Pippi Longstocking in Kurdish: report


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.

Thousands of displaced Iraqi Kurds struggle to survive


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.

Kurdish women curse Saddam at genocide trial


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.

Kurdish militants claim forest fires in Turkey


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.