Wednesday, 5 January, 2011 , 16:50 AFP — Turkish authorities discovered the remains of about a dozen people in a mass grave on Wednesday during a probe into Kurdish people missing since the 1990s, Anatolia news agency reported.

Monday, 3 January, 2011 , 01:33 AFP — Newspapers and journalists in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region have been bombarded by a barrage of lawsuits from regional political parties, media rights groups and editors say.

Thursday, 30 December, 2010 , 12:40 AFP — A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced a Kurdish journalist to 138 year in jail over a series of articles deemed as pro-terrorist propaganda, Anatolia news agency reported.

Wednesday, 29 December, 2010 , 13:47 AFP — A Kurdish politician whose party was dissolved by Turkey last year has requested asylum in Greece after his arrest at Thessaloniki airport, local police said on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 28 December, 2010 , 15:04 AFP — Two Kurdish rebels have been killed and another wounded in clashes with the security forces in southeast Turkey, a local official told the Anatolia news agency Tuesday.

Sunday, 26 December, 2010 , 11:30 AFP — Iran has halted the execution of Kurdish student Habibolah Latifi, who was due to be hanged on Sunday for backing a separatist rebel group, his lawyer told the ISNA news agency.

Sunday, 26 December, 2010 , 08:10 AFP — Rights campaigners have appealed to Iran to spare a Kurdish law student due to be executed on Sunday.

Saturday, 25 December, 2010 , 17:41 AFP — Amnesty International has appealed to Iran to commute the death sentence of a Kurdish law student who it said is set to be executed on Sunday.

Saturday, 25 December, 2010 , 14:56 AFP — Iraq will recognise contracts which the government of its Kurdish north has signed with foreign oil companies, the country's new oil minister, Abdulkarim al-Luaybi, said on Saturday.

Saturday, 25 December, 2010 , 12:54 AFP — Iraq will recognise contracts the government of its Kurdish north has signed with foreign oil companies, the country's new oil minister, Abdulkarim al-Luaybi, said on Saturday.