Sunday, 19 July, 2009 , 16:07 AFP — A new refinery that is set to produce 40,000 barrels of oil a day within months was inaugurated in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan, the head of the company that built it told AFP on Sunday.

Sunday, 19 July, 2009 , 12:01 AFP — Four people including two soldiers were injured in a mortar attack by Kurdish rebels against a military post in Turkey's southeast, near the border with Iraq, local officials said Sunday.

Sunday, 19 July, 2009 , 06:58 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels have killed four Iranian policemen in West Azarbaijan province, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Saturday, 18 July, 2009 , 14:57 AFP — The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebel group said on Saturday that it hoped the region's president Massud Barzani would be re-elected to his post in polls next week.

Saturday, 18 July, 2009 , 10:19 AFP — Turkish soldiers killed three Kurdish rebels in fighting in the south of the country, the army said Saturday, days after the militants extended a unilateral ceasefire.

Thursday, 16 July, 2009 , 10:19 AFP — Kurdish demands to expand their autonomous region in northern Iraq to include the Kirkuk oil fields and other districts threaten to trigger armed conflict, diplomats and analysts warn.

Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 , 17:51 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey said Wednesday they would extend a four-month truce, as thousands of Kurds marched in their main city of Diyarbakir to call for peace.

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.