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. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would raise the points when she meets Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish Regional Government, for ...

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. The arrests were made in simultaneous raids in three cities in the largely Kurdish southeast and in Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city, the agency said. Nevin Erdemir and Alattin Bati ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish police detained on Thursday scores of members of a newly banned Kurdish political party, including several mayors, suspected of having links with an outlawed militant group. Aides of the chief state prosecutor in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, who ordered the early morning raids by anti-terrorism squads, said 43 people had been detained. They were members ...

Turkish police detained 31 people, including eight Kurdish mayors, in a sweeping dawn operation Thursday targeting Kurdish separatists, a local security source said. Police raided the homes of suspects in 11 provinces as part of an investigation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its off-shoots in urban centres, the source said on condition of anonymity. It was the ...