Thursday, 2 August, 2012 , 20:57 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others wounded Thursday in an attack by Kurdish rebels in the country's southeast, local security sources said.

Thursday, 2 August, 2012 , 10:29 AFP — Turkey and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have warned that they will consider any violent group that abuses a Syrian power vacuum a "common threat", in a reference to Kurdish rebels in Syria.

Thursday, 2 August, 2012 , 10:11 AFP — Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday visited the disputed north Iraq city of Kirkuk, which is controlled by Baghdad but also claimed by the autonomous Kurdistan region.

Thursday, 2 August, 2012 , 08:47 AFP — Iraq's Kurdistan region said it will resume oil exports during the first week of August as a confidence-building measure, after stopping them for more than four months following a row with Baghdad.

Wednesday, 1 August, 2012 , 14:40 AFP — Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu arrived in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Wednesday for talks with regional president Massud Barzani, an AFP correspondent reported.

Wednesday, 1 August, 2012 , 07:51 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Wednesday in a clash with Kurdish rebels in the country's southeast, according to local officials.

Tuesday, 31 July, 2012 , 15:29 AFP — French energy giant Total said on Tuesday it has signed an oil exploration deal for areas in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, putting it on a collision course with the central government in Baghdad.

Tuesday, 31 July, 2012 , 13:37 AFP — French energy giant Total said Tuesday it had signed an oil exploration deal in the Kurdistan region in Iraq's north, a move likely to put it at odds with the central government in Baghdad.

Tuesday, 31 July, 2012 , 09:48 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish forces gave basic training to Syrian Kurds to fill any "security gap" should the Syrian regime fall, a top official in the party of the Kurdistan region's president said on Tuesday.

Sunday, 29 July, 2012 , 21:23 AFP — Syrian National Council chief Abdel Basset Sayda is on a visit to Iraqi Kurdistan in a bid to convince Kurdish leaders to join the opposition, an official from a Syrian Kurdish group said.