Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:25 AFP —
Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:18 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region should think twice before threatening to cut off oil exports and must get "their act together," Baghdad's deputy prime minister for energy affairs warned on Sunday.
Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 13:53 AFP — Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for energy affairs Hussein al-Shahristani warned Total on Sunday that any deal the French energy giant signs with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region would be illegal.
Thursday, 29 March, 2012 , 10:28 AFP — The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan was in Bulgaria on Thursday seeking investment in the region's farming, health and construction sectors, the government's press office here said.
Tuesday, 27 March, 2012 , 15:28 AFP — Italian police on Tuesday arrested five Kurdish men suspected of forcing fellow Kurds to pay a "revolutionary tax" to finance the Kurdish Worker's Party, which is banned as a terrorist group in Europe.
Tuesday, 27 March, 2012 , 13:38 AFP — Iraq's finance minister on Tuesday dismissed a threat by the country's autonomous Kurdish region to cut off oil exports if the central government continued to withhold promised funds.
Monday, 26 March, 2012 , 19:20 AFP — Iraq's Kurdistan region threatened on Monday to stop oil exports, and argued the central government did not have the right to sign a deal with British firm BP to develop a giant oilfield in disputed land.
Monday, 26 March, 2012 , 15:14 AFP — A Norwegian court on Monday sentenced Mullah Krekar, the founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group, to five years in jail for issuing death threats against a former government minister and others.
Monday, 26 March, 2012 , 14:14 AFP — Iraq's Kurdistan region threatened on Monday to stop oil exports if the central government does not hand over promised funds which regional authorities say have been withheld for more than a year.
Saturday, 24 March, 2012 , 15:02 AFP — Turkish security forces killed 15 rebel Kurds, all of them women, in fighting in the separatist heartland in the southeast of the country on Saturday, the interior ministry said.
