Tuesday, 23 May, 2006 , 18:12 AFP — Armed Kurdish rebels blew up part of a natural gas pipeline in eastern Turkey early Tuesday, disrupting the flow of gas, a local official said.
Monday, 22 May, 2006 , 14:33 AFP — Frenchwoman Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen has quit as head of Norway's immigration department over a scandal in which she was accused of tacitly allowing issue of illegal residence permits to Iraqi Kurds, the government said Monday.
Monday, 22 May, 2006 , 10:39 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded Monday in separate landmine explosions blamed on Kurdish rebels in the east and southeast of the country, local security sources said.
Saturday, 20 May, 2006 , 11:31 AFP — Hoshyar Zebari, who stays on as foreign minister in Iraq's new government, is a Kurdish party stalwart well-versed in Western ways.
Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 , 18:48 AFP — An official in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish regional government accused Turkish troops of shelling a village close to the common border Wednesday without causing casualties.
Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 , 15:45 AFP — Greek President Carolos Papoulia warned Turkey on Wednesday that it must respect human rights, notably those of the Kurds, if it wants closer ties with the European Union.
Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 , 11:16 AFP — An X-ray of Kamil Abdel Qader's lungs show a lower third that is entirely scarred -- lasting damage from the poisonous gas that rained down on his Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988.
Monday, 15 May, 2006 , 17:03 AFP — The first independent non-commercial Kurdish television station said it had started broadcasting to the Middle East via satellite from an undisclosed location near Stockholm on Monday.
Sunday, 14 May, 2006 , 10:46 AFP — Four children were killed in eastern Turkey over the weekend by a bomb blast blamed on Kurdish rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.
Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 17:03 AFP — Five prisoners who escaped from a high-security prison in northern Iraq jointly run with the US-led coalition have been recaptured by Kurdish forces, a Kurdish security official told AFP.
