Tuesday, 20 December, 2011 , 11:41 AFP — Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Tuesday he was "ready to face trial" on terror charges on condition that the case be heard in the autonomous Kurdish region.
Saturday, 17 December, 2011 , 05:22 AFP — US Vice President Joseph Biden spoke on the phone Friday with Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani and Iraqi Council of Representatives Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi to mark the historic end of the US war in Iraq, the White House announced.
Friday, 16 December, 2011 , 16:39 AFP — The United States will maintain its support of Turkey in the fight against Kurdish rebels, visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday.
Thursday, 15 December, 2011 , 13:28 AFP — Turkish troops killed eight Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey on Thursday, a local official said.
Thursday, 15 December, 2011 , 09:40 AFP — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told AFP on Thursday that oil giant ExxonMobil has promised to reconsider an exploration deal with Iraqi Kurdistan that Baghdad has strongly opposed.
Friday, 9 December, 2011 , 17:36 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region must decide whether it wishes to remain part of the country or form its own independent state, Baghdad's oil minister said in an interview published Friday.
Thursday, 8 December, 2011 , 13:12 AFP — The Turkish military denied on Thursday it was using chemical weapons in its fight against the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and said it did not even possess such arms.
Saturday, 3 December, 2011 , 09:33 AFP — Turkish troops killed three Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey overnight, local security sources said on Saturday.
Friday, 2 December, 2011 , 10:27 AFP — US Vice President Joe Biden urged Syria's Bashar al-Assad to quit, in a Turkish newspaper interview published Friday, adding to growing global pressure on the regime over its crackdown on dissidents.
Sunday, 27 November, 2011 , 12:39 AFP — The United States is to spend more than $6 billion in Iraq in 2012 even though its forces are to withdraw from the country by the end of this year, US ambassador James Jeffrey said on Sunday.
