Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 14:42 AFP — A Dutch court on Friday sentenced former chemicals trader Frans van Anraat to 15 years in jail for aiding war crimes by selling chemicals the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein used for deadly gas attacks on Kurdish villages.

Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 14:02 AFP — A Dutch court on Friday ruled that Saddam Hussein committed genocide against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, but acquitted a Dutch chemicals trader of aiding the crime because he did not know the Iraqi regime's genocidal intentions.

Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 11:06 AFP — A Dutch court is set to issue its verdict Friday on a chemicals trader accused of aiding genocide by selling the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein the chemicals it used to gas a Kurdish village.

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.