Friday, 23 June, 2006 , 18:27 AFP — Eleven Kurdish rebels were killed on Friday in clashes with the Turkish army in the southeast of the country, local security officials said.

Friday, 23 June, 2006 , 17:23 AFP — Eight Kurdish rebels were killed on Friday in clashes with the Turkish army in the southeast of the country, local security officials said.

Friday, 23 June, 2006 , 16:49 AFP — A mass grave has been discovered north of the Iraqi capital where 31 Kurds were buried during the former regime of Saddam Hussein, a Kurdish official said Friday.

Friday, 23 June, 2006 , 13:49 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish political group, the Democratic Society Party (DTP), will hold its first congress Sunday, expected to result in a decision to revise the party's leadership system.

Thursday, 22 June, 2006 , 15:47 AFP — Baghdad's entire Sabean-Mandean population estimated at 25,000 has presented a petition to Kurdish authorities to move to the northern region's safe haven, an Arab League official said Thursday.

Thursday, 22 June, 2006 , 11:06 AFP — The founder of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, Mullah Krekar, on Thursday hailed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed two weeks ago.

Thursday, 22 June, 2006 , 11:06 AFP — The founder of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, Mullah Krekar, on Thursday hailed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed two weeks ago.

Thursday, 22 June, 2006 , 10:28 AFP — The founder of a radical Islamist group living in Norway since 1991 hailed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on Thursday, and praised the good work of bid Laden's recently slain lieutenant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Wednesday, 21 June, 2006 , 11:53 AFP — Iranian Kurds who fled violence-plagued Iraq have been stuck in dire conditions in no man's land along the Jordanian border for the past 18 months, a spokesman for the refugees said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 21 June, 2006 , 11:45 AFP — The swift conviction of two Turkish soldiers over a deadly bomb attack on a Kurdish-owned bookstore in eastern Turkey is an encouraging sign of growing civilian control over the military, a senior EU official said in remarks published Wednesday.