Sunday, 26 January, 2014 , 19:15 AFP — Syrian rebels and government troops clashed Sunday in restive districts of Damascus, a monitoring group said, as representatives of the warring sides met for peace talks in Geneva.

Thursday, 23 January, 2014 , 16:12 AFP — Syrian Kurds protested Thursday their exclusion from UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland, and vowed to forge ahead with their own freedom drive in territories they control.

Tuesday, 21 January, 2014 , 18:47 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said Tuesday he expected very little from the Geneva II peace conference on Syria and warned of the dangers of extremist groups gaining ground.

Tuesday, 21 January, 2014 , 16:05 AFP — Syria's Kurds named a municipal council Tuesday for one of three majority-Kurdish regions in the country's northeast, two months after they declared self-rule, an official said.

Sunday, 19 January, 2014 , 13:36 AFP — Turkish security forces on Sunday raided a Kurdish town where the army launched a botched air strike in 2011 that killed dozens of people including children, local media reported.

Saturday, 18 January, 2014 , 11:15 AFP — Iraq threatened to boycott Turkish companies and cancel contracts with Turkish firms in an intensifying row over moves to export oil from its northern Kurdish region, in remarks released Saturday.

Thursday, 16 January, 2014 , 08:54 AFP — Turkey's spy agency has denied it was involved in the killings of three female Kurdish rebels in Paris a year ago but has launched an internal probe into the case.

Monday, 13 January, 2014 , 11:09 AFP — Syrian state security forces arrested on Monday a Kurdish journalist working for an Iraqi news outlet in the northern city of Qamishli, a relative told AFP.

Sunday, 12 January, 2014 , 14:46 AFP — Baghdad summoned Turkey's charge d'affaires Sunday over moves by Iraq's Kurdish region to sell oil independently via one of Ankara's ports, saying the move was a violation of its constitution.

Sunday, 12 January, 2014 , 09:40 AFP — A bombing targeting a general in northern Iraq Sunday damaged his vehicle but left him unharmed, an official said, the latest of several attacks in the normally peaceful Kurdish region in recent months.