Thursday, 6 August, 2009 , 14:14 AFP — Two Kurdish rebels, one of them a woman, were killed Thursday in clashes with Turkish security forces in the country's restive southeast near Iraq, local security sources said.

Wednesday, 5 August, 2009 , 11:39 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday broke a two-year embargo to meet the head of the country's main Kurdish party on efforts to end a 25-year Kurdish insurgency, emerging from the talks with "hope for the future".

Tuesday, 4 August, 2009 , 09:46 AFP — Two Kurdish rebels have been killed in fighting with paramilitary troops in eastern Turkey, security sources said Tuesday.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 18:40 AFP — Iraq's top court on Sunday jailed former deputy premier Tareq Aziz and Saddam Hussein's hatchet-man "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid for seven years each for expelling Kurds from northern Iraq almost three decades ago, state television said.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 16:05 AFP — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region reopened dialogue on Sunday after a long and bitter standoff over land and oil.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 14:20 AFP — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki made his first trip to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region in more than two years on Sunday in a bid to resolve key disputes with regional leaders over land and oil.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 11:02 AFP — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki made his maiden trip as premier to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday in a bid to resolve key disputes with regional leaders over land and oil.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 08:27 AFP — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki made his maiden trip as premier to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday in a bid to resolve key disputes with regional leaders over land and oil.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 08:07 AFP — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday, his first trip there as premier, for talks with regional leaders on land and oil disputes, an AFP correspondent said.

Sunday, 2 August, 2009 , 07:55 AFP —