Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — A top Kurdish guerilla on Saturday threatened to launch hit-and-run attacks on Iran, saying the Shiite country planned to bomb his group's positions inside Iraq to gain Turkey's support against the US.

Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — A bomb exploded near a railway line in the mainly Kurdish east of Turkey as a freight train was passing by but there were no casualties, the state-run railway company said Friday.

Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — A Turkish court on Friday rejected a petition by jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan to be retried, despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that his 1999 trial was unfair, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — A court here on Friday resumed hearing testimony from two military men and a government-paid Kurdish informer facing possible life sentences over a deadly bomb attack allegedly aimed at creating unrest in the mainly Kurdish southeast.

Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — Authorities in northern Kurdistan warned rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) against waging war against Turkey or Iran from Iraqi territory.

Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — A top Iraqi Kurdish official on Friday warned rebels from the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) against waging a war on Turkey or Iran from Iraqi territory.

Wednesday, 3 May, 2006 , 10:44 AFP — Iraq's parliament asked the defense and foreign ministries Wednesday to report on the alleged shelling by Iranian forces of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq's Kurdistan.

Tuesday, 2 May, 2006 , 20:30 AFP — The US government on Tuesday called on Iraq's neighbors to respect its territorial sovereignty as Turkey massed thousands of troops along its border with northern Iraq.

Tuesday, 2 May, 2006 , 13:34 AFP — The Turkish army said Tuesday it reserves the right to venture into neighboring Iraq to pursue separatist Kurdish rebels based there, but denied reports that such operations were already under way.

Monday, 1 May, 2006 , 11:48 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed Monday when he stepped on a landmine believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.