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.
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.
