Wednesday, 7 December, 2005 , 05:44 AFP — Three Iraqis, including a candidate standing in the country's key December 15 election, have been killed in attacks on the offices of the Islamic Union of Kurdistan, party sources said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 6 December, 2005 , 11:58 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were wounded Tuesday when they stumbled on a mine planted by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels, Anatolia news agency said citing local sources.

Monday, 5 December, 2005 , 15:12 AFP — Fifteen Kurds from Iraq and Iran on Monday demanded damages from Dutch chemicals trader Frans van Anraat who is on trial here on genocide charges for supplying ingredients used by Saddam Hussein in nerve gas attacks on Kurdish towns in the 1980s.

Sunday, 4 December, 2005 , 16:03 AFP — Massud Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan, on Sunday denied reports that Israeli military instructors were training Kurdish forces in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

Friday, 2 December, 2005 , 17:36 AFP — Turkish police have detained 17 people in an operation against a gang that allegedly forced Kurdish children into theft and was linked to separatist Kurdish rebels, officials said Friday.

Friday, 2 December, 2005 , 14:48 AFP — A Japanese partner of Dutch chemicals trader Frans van Anraat testified Friday at his trial on charges of genocide and war crimes for supplying chemicals used by Saddam Hussein in poison gas attacks that Van Anraat knew the ingredients could be used to make nerve gas.

Friday, 2 December, 2005 , 10:16 AFP — Turkey is to reopen a consulate in Mosul, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said in Ankara on Friday, describing the Kurdish-dominated area around the northern Iraqi town as a Turkish "hinterland."

Thursday, 1 December, 2005 , 14:07 AFP — Dozens of former Israeli commandos have been training Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq, supplying them with equipment worth millions of dollars, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.

Thursday, 1 December, 2005 , 13:09 AFP — Survivors of a 1987 alleged Iraqi nerve gas attack on an Iranian town gave emotional testimony Thursday in the trial of a Dutch businessman accused of complicity in genocide for supplying chemical ingredients used by Saddam Hussein in attacks on Kurds in Iraq and Iran.

Thursday, 1 December, 2005 , 03:38 AFP — A Norwegian company started drilling for oil this week deep inside Iraq's Kurdish north, in a move that offers the Kurds hope of a resource base for their hard-won autonomy, regardless of the fate of their decades-old claim to the oil city of Kirkuk.