Friday, 6 December, 2013 , 13:17 AFP — Gunmen shot dead a magazine editor investigating corruption in the autonomous Kurdistan region, the latest in a series of attacks on journalists in Iraq, media rights groups and police said Friday.

Friday, 6 December, 2013 , 12:25 AFP — The Turkish government has formally submitted to parliament a package of reforms aimed at boosting the rights of the country's Kurdish community, a parliamentary source said Friday.

Friday, 6 December, 2013 , 12:09 AFP — A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle outside a pro-government militia headquarters in northeastern Syria, killing at least five people on Friday, a monitoring group said.

Thursday, 5 December, 2013 , 09:25 AFP — Jihadists in northern Syria have kidnapped more than 50 Kurds in the past three days, in the second such case of mass hostage-taking since July, a monitoring group said Thursday.

Tuesday, 3 December, 2013 , 15:10 AFP — Iraq is optimistic about resolving a long-running dispute over plans by the country's autonomous Kurdish region to export oil to international markets through Turkey, its oil minister said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 3 December, 2013 , 12:00 AFP — Iraq is "optimistic" about resolving a long-running dispute so that the country's autonomous Kurdish region could export oil to international markets through Turkey, Iraq's oil minister said on Tuesday.

Monday, 2 December, 2013 , 15:21 AFP — Turkey's energy minister on Monday mooted three-party talks with Iraq's central government and the autonomous Kurdish region to resolve a long-running row over the export of oil to international markets.

Monday, 2 December, 2013 , 11:50 AFP — Syria's Democratic Union Party, the country's most powerful Kurdish group, hopes to create an autonomous Kurdish region in a federal Syria, its chief Salih Muslim told AFP in an interview.

Monday, 2 December, 2013 , 08:41 AFP — Two near-simultaneous bombings against security forces in the normally peaceful Kurdish region of northern Iraq left two senior officers wounded on Monday, an official said.

Saturday, 30 November, 2013 , 16:22 AFP — Baghdad has barred Turkish private planes from flying to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, officials said Saturday, ahead of an energy conference that Ankara's energy minister was expected to attend.