Shwan Mohammed
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/ 22 October 2007

Kurdish rebels offer conditional truce

Iraqi Kurdish rebels said on Monday they were ready to lay down their arms if Turkey stopped targeting the rebels and abandoned plans for an incursion into Iraq, according to a rebel website. ”We are ready for a ceasefire if the Turkish army stops attacking our positions, drops plans for an incursion and resorts to peace,” said a statement.

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/ 22 October 2007

Kurdish rebels to declare ceasefire, says Iraqi

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Monday that Kurdish rebels would announce a unilateral ceasefire later in the day amid Turkish threats to launch an incursion against them in northern Iraq. ”The PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] has decided to declare a ceasefire from their side tonight,” Talabani told reporters at Sulaimaniyah Airport in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region.

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/ 17 March 2006

Iraqi Kurd killed in riot on Halabja anniversary

A 14-year-old boy was killed when security guards fired into a massive crowd of Kurds protesting local corruption in Halabja on Thursday on the anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s gas attack on the Kurdish town. Most of the demonstrators were students from universities around the Kurdish region and they expressed widespread anger over the lack reconstruction in the impoverished town.