Saturday, 4 July, 2009 , 14:50 AFP — A Kurdish militiaman, Turkman policeman and two Sunni Arab civilians have been killed in three separate gun attacks with the use of silencers in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said on Saturday.

Saturday, 4 July, 2009 , 10:58 AFP — Iranian Kurdish journalists Abdolvahed Hiva Botimar and Adnan Hassanpour have been jailed on charges involving possession of military grade weapons and providing information on military bases, their lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said on Saturday.

Wednesday, 1 July, 2009 , 16:45 AFP — The Iraqi Kurdish representative to Washington voiced fears Wednesday that President Barack Obama's administration might disengage too quickly from Iraq only to have to intervene again later.

Monday, 29 June, 2009 , 15:40 AFP — Fifty Iraqi MPs on Monday condemned a planned new constitution for Iraqi Kurdistan that is to be put to a referendum at the end of July.

Monday, 29 June, 2009 , 14:50 AFP — The Arabs and Turkmen of Kirkuk fear the Kurds will seize control of the northern oil hub after the US pullout from Iraqi urban areas unless their power in the security services is curbed.

Monday, 29 June, 2009 , 14:28 AFP — The Arabs and Turkmen of Kirkuk fear the Kurds will seize control of the northern oil hub after the US pullout from Iraqi urban areas unless their power in the security services is curbed.

Monday, 29 June, 2009 , 13:42 AFP — Seven Iraqi police and a Kurdish militiaman were killed on Monday as they tried to tackle two separate bomb attacks near the main northern city of Mosul, a police official said.

Friday, 26 June, 2009 , 18:33 AFP — Iraq's northern autonomous region diagnosed three more cases of swine flu on Friday, including the 12-year-old brother of a female basketball player struck down by the condition.

Thursday, 25 June, 2009 , 09:43 AFP — Five women basketball players and their male coach were confirmed on Thursday as the first swine flu cases in Iraq, the north's autonomous Kurdish region said.

Wednesday, 24 June, 2009 , 19:33 AFP — Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Wednesday passed a new constitution in which it laid claim to the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a move likely to increase ethnic tension.