Sunday, 6 March, 2011 , 08:44 AFP — A protest site in Iraq's Kurdish region was attacked overnight and the offices of an independent Kurdish radio station were ransacked, demonstrators and a press watchdog said on Sunday.

Saturday, 5 March, 2011 , 13:19 AFP — Four Iranian forest guards have been killed in what an official said was a "terrorist act" in the western province of Kurdistan, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.

Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 , 15:41 AFP — Energy firm Heritage Oil said on Wednesday it has made a major gas find in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan that is among the largest ever in the country.

Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 , 15:21 AFP — Intelligence officers in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have arrested a second suspected Al-Qaeda fighter who was among a dozen escapees from a southern prison two weeks ago, an official said on Wednesday.

Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 , 14:07 AFP — Energy firm Heritage Oil said on Wednesday it has made a major gas find in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan that is among the largest ever in the country.

Tuesday, 25 January, 2011 , 18:03 AFP — Turkey violated free speech after it jailed a Kurdish activist for speaking to media at a protest supporting the PKK separatist group, the European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday.

Sunday, 16 January, 2011 , 14:40 AFP — Turkish police Sunday used water cannon and tear gas to disperse dozens of Kurdish youths hurling petrol bombs and stones after a demonstration in downtown Istanbul, an AFP photographer said.

Saturday, 15 January, 2011 , 12:30 AFP — Iran has hanged a Kurdish rebel convicted of involvement in the murder six years ago of a border police officer, state television reported on its website Saturday.

Friday, 14 January, 2011 , 16:54 AFP — Swedish police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in a shooting in Oslo targeting the home of Mullah Krekar, the founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group, authorities said Friday.

Tuesday, 11 January, 2011 , 15:28 AFP — Turkey violated prisoners' rights to a private and family life by refusing to send letters written in Kurdish to their families, the European Court of Human Rights said on Tuesday.