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.

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.