Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 17:40 AFP — Militants killed six people in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Sunday in a rare attack on an area usually spared the violence plaguing other parts of the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 16:25 AFP — Militants killed six people in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Sunday in a rare attack on an area usually spared the violence plaguing other parts of the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 15:01 AFP — Militants killed six people in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Sunday in a rare attack on an area usually spared the violence plaguing other parts of the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 13:33 AFP — Militants killed six people in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on Sunday, officials said, in a rare attack on an area usually spared violence plaguing the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 12:14 AFP — Bombings killed four people in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Sunday, officials said, a rare attack on an area usually spared violence plaguing the rest of the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 11:42 AFP — Up to four bombings hit the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Sunday, officials said, a rare attack on an area usually spared violence plaguing the rest of the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 11:21 AFP — Explosions hit the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday, an AFP correspondent reported, a rare event in an area usually spared violence plaguing the rest of the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 11:03 AFP — Explosions hit the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday, an AFP correspondent reported, a rare event in an area usually spared violence plaguing the rest of the country.

Sunday, 29 September, 2013 , 10:47 AFP —

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.