Saturday, 17 November, 2012 , 17:25 AFP — The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region has ordered its peshmerga security forces on high alert, a statement issued on Saturday said, attributing the move to clashes with central government forces.

Friday, 16 November, 2012 , 02:48 AFP — The formation of a new military headquarters covering disputed territory in northern Iraq has sent already-poor relations between Baghdad and its autonomous Kurdish region plummeting.

Thursday, 15 November, 2012 , 10:17 AFP — Prominent female lawmaker and rights activist Leyla Zana who symbolises the Kurdish struggle in Turkey has joined hundreds of Kurdish inmates who have been on hunger strike for two months, one of her colleagues said Thursday.

Thursday, 15 November, 2012 , 02:41 AFP — Kurdish militiamen and residents have wrested control of yet another town in northeastern Syria near the Turkish and Iraqi borders, in what an activist said was part of an anti-Turkey "dirty game" by the regime.

Tuesday, 13 November, 2012 , 17:30 AFP — Turkey's government submitted a bill to parliament Tuesday to give Kurds the right to use their own language in court, a key demand of hundreds of prisoners who have been on hunger strike for two months.

Tuesday, 13 November, 2012 , 09:03 AFP — Turkey's ruling party submitted a bill to parliament Tuesday overnight to allow court testimonies to be given in the Kurdish language, one of the demands raised by hundreds of hunger strikers nationwide.

Monday, 12 November, 2012 , 13:42 AFP — Iran on Monday called for improved ties with neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan, particularly on the economic front, as the autonomous region's prime minister visited Tehran, media reports said.

Sunday, 11 November, 2012 , 16:16 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Ankara would consider bringing back capital punishment in terror related crimes, a decade after it abolished the practice.

Sunday, 11 November, 2012 , 09:55 AFP — Thousands of Kurds have fled Syrian army attacks on the strategic town of Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border, running for their lives after their homes were shelled and the corpses of fighters left strewn on the streets.

Saturday, 10 November, 2012 , 17:11 AFP — Five more lawmakers from Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party have joined a hunger strike by hundreds of Kurdish prisoners, a party official said on Saturday