Sunday, 21 March, 2010 , 10:01 AFP — About 50,000 Kurds gathered here Sunday to celebrate Newroz, their new year, as police enforced tight security for the event, often mired in violence and bloodshed.

Sunday, 14 March, 2010 , 16:24 AFP — An alliance of Iraqi Kurdistan's two major parties was holding off a new opposition group in the battleground province of Sulaimaniyah, early results from Iraq's March 7 polls showed Sunday.

Sunday, 14 March, 2010 , 15:26 AFP — Turkish security officials said a soldier was killed and another wounded Sunday in an ambush by Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country.

Sunday, 14 March, 2010 , 14:30 AFP — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc built on its gains in Iraq's parliamentary election, initial results showed on Sunday, as he took a comfortable lead in the key province of Basra.

Thursday, 11 March, 2010 , 18:18 AFP — The Kurdistania alliance, made up of the Kurdish autonomous region's two long-dominant parties, was in the lead in the Iraqi province of Arbil, an election official told AFP on Thursday.

Thursday, 11 March, 2010 , 18:10 AFP — The Kurdistania alliance, made up of the Kurdish autonomous region's two long-dominant parties, was in the lead in the Iraqi province of Arbil, an election official told AFP on Thursday.

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Thursday, 11 March, 2010 , 15:19 AFP — A teenage boy was killed and two others injured Thursday when they stepped on a landmine in southeastern Turkey, the theatre of a long-running Kurdish insurgency, media reports said.

Thursday, 11 March, 2010 , 13:26 AFP — Kurdish officials lashed out at Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Thursday, accusing him of stirring sectarian discord after he said an Arab should be the country's next president.

Tuesday, 9 March, 2010 , 10:59 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed Tuesday when a mine believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels exploded in the second deadly blast in as many days, the Anatolia news agency reported.