Tuesday, 7 September, 2010 , 13:49 AFP — Nine Kurdish rebels and a soldier were killed in fighting in the southeast and east of Turkey, local security sources said Tuesday.

Saturday, 4 September, 2010 , 06:40 AFP — Iranian security forces have killed four members of an outlawed Kurdish group in the western province of Kordestan, the hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Saturday.

Tuesday, 31 August, 2010 , 18:52 AFP — Prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged Roj TV, a Copenhagen-based Kurdish TV network, with supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by the European Union.

Monday, 30 August, 2010 , 10:30 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Monday launched a scathing counter attack on Baghdad's oil ministry, which it said had squandered "billions of dollars" while failing to generate electricity.

Sunday, 29 August, 2010 , 17:22 AFP — Security forces in Turkey disarmed a bomb placed along an oil pipeline and found 65 kilos (143 pounds) of explosives stashed in a car, officials said Sunday.

Sunday, 29 August, 2010 , 15:20 AFP — Turkish security forces arrested Sunday three suspected members of the PKK Kurdish rebel group after finding 65 kilos (143 pounds) of explosives stashed in their car, officials said.

Sunday, 29 August, 2010 , 14:44 AFP — Iraq on Sunday slammed as "illegal" an agreement between its autonomous Kurdistan region and the German energy firm RWE that is expected to help supply the planned Nabucco gas pipeline to Europe.

Sunday, 29 August, 2010 , 01:23 AFP — When the US army ends its Iraq combat mission this week, Captain TJ Tepley will stay on the frontline -- keeping the peace at the centre of what commanders say is the country's biggest challenge.

Thursday, 26 August, 2010 , 07:10 AFP — Five rebels and two members of the Revolutionary Guards have been killed in clashes in Iran's Kordestan province near the Iraqi border, government newspaper Iran reported on Thursday.

Wednesday, 25 August, 2010 , 15:05 AFP — A blast blamed on separatist Kurdish rebels hit a pipeline carrying natural gas from Iran to Turkey overnight, forcing the shutdown of the conduit, officials said Wednesday.