Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 08:36 AFP — A Dutch court was scheduled to issue its verdict Friday on a chemicals trader accused of selling the former Iraqi regime of Saddam the chemicals it used to gas a Kurdish village.
Thursday, 22 December, 2005 , 01:36 AFP — A Dutch court is set to rule Friday in the case of a chemicals trader accused of aiding genocide by selling ingredients for poison gas to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.
Tuesday, 20 December, 2005 , 14:57 AFP — Iraqi Kurds have become disenchanted with their conservative Shiite allies in the outgoing national government and are keeping all options open on how best to broker power in the new administration.
Tuesday, 20 December, 2005 , 13:14 AFP — A Turkish man accused of being a leader of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) was on Tuesday handed a suspended sentence of 18 months in prison in the southern German city of Stuttgart.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2005 , 09:19 AFP — Iraq's first Kurdish head of state Jalal Talabani said on Tuesday that he would not seek a second presidential mandate if the post remained largely ceremonial following this week's watershed general election.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2005 , 02:32 AFP — Massud Barzani, the first elected president of Iraqi Kurdistan, portrays himself as a champion of Kurdish rights which he is ready to defend even at the risk of falling out with Iraq's other communities.
Monday, 12 December, 2005 , 17:03 AFP — Turkey maintained its pressure Monday on the United States to act against separatist Kurdish rebels in neighboring northern Iraq as talks began here with visiting US Central Intelligence Agency director Porter Goss.
Sunday, 11 December, 2005 , 15:58 AFP — US Central Intelligence Agency chief Porter Goss arrived in Turkey on Sunday for talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and intelligence officials.
Sunday, 11 December, 2005 , 03:11 AFP — Jalal Talabani, Iraq's first Kurdish president in modern history and tipped to win a top position in December's election, has catapulted his people to the fore after years as second-class citizens.
Saturday, 10 December, 2005 , 19:38 AFP — Syrian security forces on Saturday dispersed a Kurdish protest in Damascus organized to coincide with the UN-designated International Human Rights Day, an AFP correspondent said.
