Monday, 26 December, 2005 , 14:32 AFP — The Kurdish alliance took the lead with over a third of the votes in Iraq's special elections involving expatriates, soldiers, hospitals and detainees, according to results announced Monday by the electoral commission.
Monday, 26 December, 2005 , 08:43 AFP — Turkish police have arrested a nephew of the jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan on suspicion of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Anatolia news agency reported.
Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 17:16 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 , 16:02 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 , 14:42 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.