Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 , 15:48 AFP — A prosecutor wants life sentences for seven suspects, among them an army colonel, over the summary killing of 2O people in Turkey's southeast at the height of a Kurdish insurgency in the 1990s, according to a copy of the charge sheet obtained by AFP Wednesday.

Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 , 09:54 AFP — Kurdish rebels Wednesday announced they were extending a truce in their separatist campaign until September 1 to help efforts to find a peaceful solution, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported.

Monday, 13 July, 2009 , 09:27 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region has delayed a referendum on a draft constitution claiming extra areas as part of the region's territory, the regional assembly's speaker said on Monday.

Monday, 13 July, 2009 , 08:32 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region has called in international consultants to fight corruption and to restructure its administration, Prime Minister Neshirvan Barzani said on Monday.

Sunday, 12 July, 2009 , 01:26 AFP — The murder of a Kurdish opposition leader in Vienna, in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's name has been dragged, is still shrouded in mystery two decades on.

Wednesday, 8 July, 2009 , 09:29 AFP — Almost 200 Iranian-Kurd refugees have been moved from a makeshift camp on the Iraq-Jordan border to a larger camp near Syria, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.

Monday, 6 July, 2009 , 19:12 AFP — Iraq's electoral commission on Monday ruled out holding a referendum on a new Kurdish constitution on the same day as the July 25 parliamentary and presidential polls in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Monday, 6 July, 2009 , 07:44 AFP — A landmine blast killed four people and wounded nine Monday in southeast Turkey near the border with Iraq where Kurdish rebels are active, the Anatolia news agency reported, quoting the local governor's office.

Monday, 6 July, 2009 , 06:40 AFP — Three people were killed and nine wounded Monday in a landmine blast in southeast Turkey near the border with Iraq where Kurdish rebels are active, media reports said.

Saturday, 4 July, 2009 , 16:12 AFP — A Kurdish militiaman, Turkman policeman and two Sunni Arab civilians have been killed in three separate attacks by guns fitted with silencers in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said on Saturday.