Tuesday, 31 December, 2013 , 20:06 AFP — Turkey's intelligence services are in talks with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan for disarming his PKK group in a bid to bring an end to the nearly three-decade old insurgency, officials said Monday.

Tuesday, 31 December, 2013 , 08:35 AFP — Turkey's intelligence agency has discussed the issue of disarmament with the jailed Kurdish leader in a bid to bring an end to the nearly three-decade old insurgency, a newspaper reported on Monday.

Wednesday, 26 December, 2012 , 13:46 AFP — Oil exports from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region via the federal government have been slashed in the latest chapter of a long-running payments row, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

Sunday, 16 December, 2012 , 16:47 AFP — A car bomb at an Iraqi Kurdish political party headquarters in the town of Jalawla killed two Kurdish security recruits and wounded 13 on Sunday, a police officer and a doctor said.

Sunday, 16 December, 2012 , 09:56 AFP — A car bomb at an Iraqi Kurdish political party headquarters in the town of Jalawla killed two Kurdish security recruits and wounded two on Sunday, security and medical officials said.

Saturday, 15 December, 2012 , 14:38 AFP — The Turkish army has seized more than 20 tonnes of marijuana from Kurdish rebels in what local authorities said Saturday was one of the biggest ever crackdowns on "terrorist income."

Monday, 10 December, 2012 , 13:42 AFP — Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, inspected Kurdish peshmerga security forces in the disputed north Iraq province of Kirkuk on Monday, a Kurdish general said.

Saturday, 8 December, 2012 , 12:24 AFP — The traces of poison found in an autopsy on the exhumed remains of Turkish president Turgut Ozal, who died in office in 1993, were too minute to be lethal, the pro-government daily Sabah reported Saturday.

Thursday, 6 December, 2012 , 18:24 AFP — A Norway appeals court on Thursday overturned a terrorism conviction against Mullah Krekar, the Iraqi founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group, but jailed him on other charges.

Wednesday, 5 December, 2012 , 14:02 AFP — Turkish troops have killed 13 Kurdish rebels during clashes that erupted Tuesday in a mountainous area in southern Turkey near Syria, the local governor's office said Wednesday.