Monday, 13 April, 2009 , 11:04 AFP — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday visited Kurdistan in northern Iraq, an official from the autonomous region's presidential office told AFP.

Saturday, 11 April, 2009 , 19:28 AFP — Iraq's national security minister Shirwan al-Waili said on Saturday that Iraq, Turkey and the United States had agreed to step up intelligence sharing to help combat Kurdish rebels.

Saturday, 11 April, 2009 , 11:30 AFP — Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay flew to Baghdad Saturday for talks on measures against Turkish Kurd rebels holed up in neighbouring northern Iraq as clashes inside Turkey claimed nine lives.

Monday, 6 April, 2009 , 16:47 AFP — The head of the Danish-based Kurdish television station Roj TV, which Turkey is pressing Denmark to close down, insisted Monday that Ankara would not get its way.

Sunday, 5 April, 2009 , 16:01 AFP — Syria's controversial state security court has jailed 12 people, including five Kurds and one woman, for prison terms of five to 15 years, a human rights organisation announced on Sunday.

Saturday, 4 April, 2009 , 17:08 AFP — Two people died in a Turkish hospital Saturday after around 5,000 supporters of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party clashed with police, local security officials said.

Friday, 3 April, 2009 , 09:20 AFP — Investigators have dug up 15 bone fragments in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast where victims of extrajudicial killings were allegedly buried, a local judicial source said on Friday.

Friday, 3 April, 2009 , 08:35 AFP — South Korean firms said Friday they would continue drilling for oil in an autonomous region of Iraq despite a decision by the central government to ban them from taking part in tenders.

Thursday, 2 April, 2009 , 15:16 AFP — Iraq's oil minister penalised two South Korean oil firms on Thursday, banning them from taking part in Iraqi tenders after they signed a billion-dollar contract with the Kurd regional government.

Thursday, 2 April, 2009 , 13:55 AFP — A Turkish court charged three people Thursday over alleged summary killings of Kurds in the 1990s, as investigators excavated a suspected burial site, a judicial source said.