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.

Friday, 24 December, 2010 , 12:47 AFP — Turkish police have arrested an alleged Kurdish militant on suspicion he was among the masterminds of two recent bomb attacks in Istanbul, officials said Friday.

Friday, 24 December, 2010 , 11:54 AFP — Turkish police have arrested an alleged Kurdish militant on suspicion he was among the masterminds of two recent bomb attacks in Istanbul, officials said Friday.

Sunday, 19 December, 2010 , 13:42 AFP — Three people were injured, one of them seriously, when a small bomb exploded Sunday during a demonstration in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, police said.

Saturday, 18 December, 2010 , 15:41 AFP — Thousands of Iraqi Kurds took to the streets of the northern region's second city of Sulaimaniyah on Saturday to protest against a recent law restricting the ability to demonstrate.

Wednesday, 15 December, 2010 , 13:40 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, who caused alarm with a self-determination call, has said the Kurds would remain part of a federal Iraq but refused to live under a dictatorship.

Monday, 13 December, 2010 , 15:25 AFP — The right to self-determination proclaimed last weekend by Massud Barzani does not imply a desire for secession, the Kurdish leader's nephew said on Monday.

Monday, 13 December, 2010 , 01:43 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani's recent call for self-determination for his people has drawn the ire of the country's Sunni and Shiite Arab leaders, who argue that it presages a break-up of Iraq.

Sunday, 12 December, 2010 , 16:32 AFP — Insurgents kidnapped the sister-in-law of a top Kurdish policeman in an apparent bid to release jailed detainees in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said on Sunday.

Sunday, 12 December, 2010 , 13:51 AFP — Two groups of kidnappers seized female relatives of a top Kurdish policeman and an Arab tribal chief within hours in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said on Sunday.