Sunday, 3 May, 2009 , 09:41 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish regional government on Sunday condemned an Iranian air raid against alleged separatists inside Iraq but also called on Kurdish militants to cease cross-border attacks.

Tuesday, 14 April, 2009 , 08:18 AFP — About 40 people, among them three senior members of Turkey's main Kurdish party, were detained Tuesday in a vast police operation targeting a separatist Kurdish rebel organization, a judicial source said.

Tuesday, 14 April, 2009 , 00:14 AFP — Amnesty International urged the autonomous government in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to rein in its security forces, warning they were "operating outside the rule of law".

Monday, 13 April, 2009 , 17:13 AFP — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday met Kurdish regional government leader Massud Barzani in a visit aimed at cementing ties between the two largest stateless peoples in the Middle East.

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.