Thursday, 13 September, 2012 , 18:56 AFP — The Iraqi government and the Kurdistan region struck a preliminary deal on Thursday on a months-long oil dispute that will see the autonomous region export 200,000 barrels of oil per day, officials said.

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 15:42 AFP — Forty-four people, many of them journalists, went on trial in Turkey Monday for alleged links to outlawed Kurdish rebels amid protests from human rights activists and opposition lawmakers.

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 14:54 AFP — Turkish air strikes killed 25 Kurdish rebels inside northern Iraq in the past few days as heavy army-rebel fighting inside Turkey killed at least 461 people this year, the army said Monday.

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 13:52 AFP —

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 13:34 AFP — Clashes between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish rebels have killed 461 people this year in almost 1,000 operations in the country's southeast, the military was quoted as saying by local media Monday.

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 11:48 AFP — Clashes between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish rebels have killed 461 people this year in almost 1,000 operations in the country's southeast, the military was quoted as saying by local media Monday.

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 11:12 AFP — Clashes between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish rebels have killed 461 people this year in almost a thousand operations in the country's southeast, the military was quoted as saying by local media Monday.

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 11:06 AFP — Forty-four people, many of them journalists, went on trial in Turkey on Monday for alleged links to outlawed Kurdish rebels, the third trial in a wave of legal action targeting the group.

Monday, 10 September, 2012 , 10:56 AFP —

Sunday, 9 September, 2012 , 09:10 AFP — Eighty police officers were injured, one seriously, after riots erupted at a Kurdish festival in Germany that attracted around 40,000 Kurds from around Europe, authorities said on Sunday.