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.

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.