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.

Monday, 27 February, 2012 , 11:58 AFP —

Saturday, 25 February, 2012 , 17:44 AFP — Turkish authorities have found the remains of at least nine people in a mass grave in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey, local sources said on Saturday.

Saturday, 25 February, 2012 , 16:50 AFP — One Turkish soldier was killed and another was injured in a mine explosion near the Syrian border, local sources said on Saturday, blaming Kurdish separatists, .

Friday, 17 February, 2012 , 16:16 AFP — Turkey's foreign minister condemned Friday a series of attacks on the offices of a pro-government Turkish newspaper in Germany and France by suspected Kurdish activists.

Friday, 17 February, 2012 , 11:34 AFP — The International Press Institute on Friday condemned a series of "unacceptable" attacks on Turkish newspapers in Germany and France by suspected Kurd activists.