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.

Tuesday, 29 November, 2005 , 10:51 AFP — Turkish authorities have arrested two soldiers in a high-profile probe into a bomb attack widely blamed on members of the security forces in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast, Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday.

Monday, 28 November, 2005 , 11:56 AFP — A Kurdish member of the Iraqi parliament has been awarded the Freedom Prize bestowed by Denmark's ruling Liberal Party, organizers said on Monday.

Sunday, 27 November, 2005 , 13:59 AFP — Three Iranian members of a banned Kurdish group have received long prison sentences for membership of a counter-revolutionary organisation and acting against the Islamic regime, press reports said Sunday.

Friday, 25 November, 2005 , 16:50 AFP — Suspected Kurdish rebels attacked a police station in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Friday, causing damage but no casualties, a senior police official said.

Friday, 25 November, 2005 , 16:02 AFP — An investigation into a bomb attack widely blamed on members of the security forces in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast will test the supremacy of law in this country, a senior EU official said.

Friday, 25 November, 2005 , 10:55 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish party appealed Friday to the Danish government to resist Ankara's bid to have a Denmark-based Kurdish TV station banned for alleged links to armed Kurdish rebels.

Wednesday, 23 November, 2005 , 17:43 AFP — The Turkish parliament voted Wednesday to investigate allegations that members of the security forces were involved in a bomb attack in the mainly Kurdish southeast that has sparked deadly riots.