Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 15:13 AFP — A radical Kurdish group claimed it was responsible for a weekend explosion that killed four people at a tourist site in southern Turkey, a Kurdish news agency reported Tuesday.
Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 12:03 AFP — The Anfal campaign of the late 1980s, for which former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants will go on trial in Baghdad on August 21, was the climax of decades of antagonism between Iraq's Kurds and the central government.
Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 11:01 AFP — The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges including genocide for a brutal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s that left 100,000 people dead was set Tuesday for August 21.
Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 08:57 AFP — The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges including genocide for the Anfal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s has been set for August 21, the Iraqi High Tribunal said Tuesday.
Monday, 26 June, 2006 , 14:28 AFP — A Turkish prosecutor on Monday launched an investigation into whether the first convention here Sunday of the country's main Kurdish party amounted to propaganda for separatist Kurdish rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Monday, 26 June, 2006 , 10:44 AFP — Iraq's northern Kurdistan region plans to adopt a law to lure foreign investors with long-term tax holidays and hefty concessions on duties, while the rest of Iraq battles a raging insurgency.
Monday, 26 June, 2006 , 04:26 AFP — "We don't have any choice," says a squatter gesturing to the new home he has made for his family in a Christian cemetery in Iraqi Kurdistan, after fleeing violence-plagued Baghdad.
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.
