Thursday, 14 July, 2011 , 15:12 AFP —

Tuesday, 12 July, 2011 , 10:48 AFP — Norwegian oil firm DNO said on Tuesday it had more than doubled its oil reserve estimate for its licensed Tawke oil field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, sending its share price up nearly four percent.

Tuesday, 12 July, 2011 , 10:02 AFP — Norwegian oil firm DNO said on Tuesday it had more than doubled its oil reserve estimate for its licensed Tawke oil field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Monday, 11 July, 2011 , 11:27 AFP — Tehran "reserves the right" to attack the bases of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group across the Iraq border, the official IRNA news agency quoted an army official as saying on Monday.

Sunday, 10 July, 2011 , 14:42 AFP — The remains of 222 people, probably Kurds killed under Iraq's former regime in 1987, were extracted from a mass grave south of Baghdad, the authorities said on Sunday.

Sunday, 10 July, 2011 , 08:24 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels abducted two soldiers and a health worker in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast overnight, military sources said Sunday.

Friday, 8 July, 2011 , 07:25 AFP — Clashes between the army and Kurdish rebels killed one soldier and left three others wounded in a rural area of eastern Turkey, security sources said Friday.

Wednesday, 6 July, 2011 , 18:54 AFP — Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave with 900 corpses near the central city of Diwaniyah on Wednesday, believed to be Kurds killed during the rule of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, an official said.

Tuesday, 5 July, 2011 , 12:44 AFP — The parliament chief of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Tuesday that US troops should stay beyond their planned departure date of end 2011 because security remained tenuous.

Tuesday, 5 July, 2011 , 07:02 AFP — Two soldiers were shot dead Tuesday in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast in an attack believed to be the work of Kurdish rebels, security sources said.