Friday, 11 November, 2011 , 18:01 AFP — Oil giant ExxonMobil has signed a deal with Iraqi Kurdistan, possibly jeopardising its contract for the giant West Qurna-1 field in southern Iraq, an Iraqi oil ministry official said on Friday.

Friday, 11 November, 2011 , 16:30 AFP — ExxonMobil has signed oil exploration contracts with the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan, risking a conflict with Baghdad over other Iraq projects, Dow Jones Newswires reported Friday.

Monday, 7 November, 2011 , 16:47 AFP — Turkey's prime minister said Monday that his government will not ease its crackdown on a Kurd political movement and warned the media that criticising his actions against the KCK amounted to supporting terrorism.

Saturday, 5 November, 2011 , 16:16 AFP — Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani said Saturday he opposes Turkey's military campaign against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as it will fail to permanently end the conflict.

Saturday, 5 November, 2011 , 13:56 AFP — More than one million people have visited the autonomous Kurdistan region in north Iraq -- a haven of relative stability -- in the past nine months, a tourism official said on Saturday.

Thursday, 3 November, 2011 , 14:27 AFP — A group of intellectuals and academics on Thursday protested the arrest of a prominent Turkish publisher and an academic over suspected links with Kurdish rebels.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 23:05 AFP — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta underlined Washington's commitment to maintaining strong security ties with Turkey in talks Tuesday with his Turkish counterpart, Ismet Yildiz, a US spokesman said.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 14:47 AFP — An Istanbul court on Tuesday jailed 44 people including a professor and a publisher on charges of links to Kurdish rebels, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 14:27 AFP — Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani will visit Turkey at the weekend, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, just days after Ankara ended a major military operation against Kurdish rebels.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 13:57 AFP — There will not be American bases in north Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region after the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq by year's end, a top Kurdish official told AFP on Tuesday.