Tuesday, 13 March, 2012 , 17:33 AFP — French oil giant Total is in talks to tap opportunities to invest in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, its chief said Tuesday as Baghdad insists contracts should go through the central government.

Tuesday, 13 March, 2012 , 16:55 AFP — French oil giant Total is in talks to tap opportunities to invest in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, its chief said Tuesday as Baghdad insists contracts should go through the central government.

Monday, 12 March, 2012 , 20:17 AFP — Syrian police opened fire Monday on tens of thousands of Kurds who flooded the northeastern city of Qamishli on the eighth anniversary of deadly clashes with security forces, a watchdog said.

Friday, 9 March, 2012 , 12:54 AFP — A Kurdish rebel group said on Friday that Turkey's air force carried out air strikes on border areas of north Iraq, but gave no details about casualties or damage.

Wednesday, 7 March, 2012 , 10:20 AFP — US energy giant ExxonMobil, under pressure from the Iraqi government for signing a deal with the northern Kurdish region, will make a "final decision" in days, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Thursday, 1 March, 2012 , 18:08 AFP — A high school student gunned down a "beloved" American teacher on Thursday in a murder-suicide sparked by an apparent religious dispute at a private Christian school in north Iraq.

Thursday, 1 March, 2012 , 11:28 AFP — An American teacher was shot dead on Thursday by one of his students in a murder-suicide at a private Christian school in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, officials said.

Tuesday, 28 February, 2012 , 10:46 AFP — Away from his family and living in a small flat, Omar Izzat Ibrahim is among rising numbers of Syrian Kurds who have fled a bloody crackdown to the safe haven of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.

Monday, 27 February, 2012 , 12:45 AFP — Iraqi Kurdistan said on Monday it has granted refugee status to 30 Kurdish Syrian troops who defected to the region in the first such instance in the revolt against Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Monday, 27 February, 2012 , 12:08 AFP — Thirty Kurdish Syrian soldiers defected into the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan over the past two days and have been granted refugee status, a regional deputy minister told AFP on Monday.