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.

Saturday, 26 November, 2011 , 11:10 AFP — Turkey's courts in Istanbul and mainly Kurdish southeast province of Diyarbakir ordered the arrest of 66 people on Saturday for suspected links to outlawed Kurdish rebels, media reports said.

Saturday, 26 November, 2011 , 10:39 AFP — An Istanbul court ordered the arrest of 33 people on Saturday for suspected links to outlawed Kurdish rebels, media reports said.

Thursday, 24 November, 2011 , 20:19 AFP — The prime minister of north Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region insisted on Thursday that an oil deal the region signed with ExxonMobil against Baghdad's wishes is constitutional.

Thursday, 24 November, 2011 , 08:07 AFP — Three people were killed in an armed assault blamed on Kurdish rebels on an oil drilling facility in southeastern Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday.

Wednesday, 23 November, 2011 , 15:22 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued the first official apology on Wednesday for a bloody military campaign that killed thousands of Kurds in southeast Turkey at the end of the 1930s.