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.

Tuesday, 4 December, 2012 , 15:13 AFP — Iraq on Tuesday barred Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz's plane from landing in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, in the latest sign of worsening ties between the once-close neighbours.

Tuesday, 4 December, 2012 , 14:01 AFP — Iraq on Tuesday barred a plane carrying Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz from landing in the autonomous Kurdistan region, where he was travelling for the completion of an energy deal, officials said.