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.

Tuesday, 15 August, 2006 , 10:02 AFP — A suicide car bomber killed four Iraqis and wounded 36 more on Tuesday in an attack on an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, President Jalal Talabani's party, police said.

Tuesday, 15 August, 2006 , 09:26 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Tuesday in clashes with Kurdish rebels in the southwest of the country, local authorities said.

Tuesday, 15 August, 2006 , 02:34 AFP — When Saddam Hussein's warplanes bombed the picturesque Kurdish village of Beri Bahar on April 24, 1987, Mohammed Saleem gathered his family and ran for his life.

Sunday, 13 August, 2006 , 13:37 AFP — Two policemen were killed on Sunday and a third injured by a mine in eastern Turkey while three suspected bombers of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were arrested in the south of the country, sources said.

Saturday, 12 August, 2006 , 19:53 AFP — Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Saturday assured Turkish leaders that his country will not be a sanctuary for Kurdish separatist rebels from Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Friday, 11 August, 2006 , 14:07 AFP — Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has said he may call on his militants to declare a ceasefire if Ankara displays "a sincere approach" for the resolution of the ethnic conflict, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported Friday.

Thursday, 10 August, 2006 , 15:49 AFP — German authorities said Thursday they had captured a suspected ringleader of the banned Kurdish rebel group PKK who is accused of promoting and securing financing for the organization.