Saturday, 28 September, 2013 , 19:20 AFP — An opposition movement bested Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's party in the autonomous Kurdish region's parliamentary polls, shaking a decades-long duopoly on power, according to election results announced Saturday.

Thursday, 26 September, 2013 , 08:08 AFP — Turkish security forces have recaptured all but one of 18 escaped prisoners detained for suspected links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the interior minister said Thursday.

Wednesday, 25 September, 2013 , 08:52 AFP — Eighteen inmates detained for suspected links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Wednesday tunnelled their way out of a prison in eastern Turkey, the justice minister said.

Tuesday, 24 September, 2013 , 07:13 AFP — Voters in Iraq's Kurdish region may have had differing views at the ballot box during weekend polls, but there is one dream which unites virtually all of them: an independent state.

Monday, 23 September, 2013 , 05:45 AFP — Turkey's fragile peace process is in limbo as government and Kurdish rebels accuse each other of failing to respect a pact seen as the country's best shot at ending three decades of conflict.

Sunday, 22 September, 2013 , 12:16 AFP — The count was under way on Sunday in Iraqi Kurdistan's first election in four years, with opposition groups hoping to end the decades-old dominance of the two main ex-rebel parties.

Sunday, 22 September, 2013 , 10:15 AFP — Officials were counting votes on Sunday after Iraqi Kurdistan's first election in four years, with opposition groups hoping to end the decades-old dominance of the two main former rebel parties.

Sunday, 22 September, 2013 , 07:05 AFP — The count got under way Sunday in Iraqi Kurdistan's first election in four years with opposition groups hoping to end the decades-old dominance of the two main former rebel parties.

Saturday, 21 September, 2013 , 19:13 AFP — Iraq's Kurds voted Saturday in their first election in four years as their autonomous region grapples with disputes with Baghdad and fellow Kurds fight bloody battles in neighbouring Syria.

Saturday, 21 September, 2013 , 18:29 AFP — Iraq's Kurds voted Saturday in their first election in four years as their autonomous region grapples with disputes with Baghdad and fellow Kurds fight bloody battles in neighbouring Syria.