<div><p>Security forces loyal to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Kurdish party were accused on Thursday of having shot and wounded three people from a rival bloc in a clash at a political meeting in northern Iraq.</p><p>The incident occurred late on Tuesday at a meeting of the Goran ...

<div><p>ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for printing what it called Kurdish rebel propaganda, a ruling likely to raise concern about press freedom in the EU candidate country.</p><p>It was not the first time prosecutors in ...

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday urged the leaders of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region to settle disputes over boundaries and oil revenues with Baghdad and to support Iraq's March 7 election.</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would raise the points when ...

<div><p>ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 60 people on Saturday, including two journalists suspected of belonging to or aiding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the state-run Anatolian news agency reported.</p><p>The arrests were made in simultaneous raids in three cities in the largely Kurdish southeast and in Istanbul ...