Friday, 6 February, 2009 , 09:56 AFP —

Thursday, 5 February, 2009 , 11:25 AFP — A female Turkish lawmaker was handed an 18-month prison sentence on Thursday over a speech in which she refused to condemn a Kurdish rebel group as a terrorist organisation.

Wednesday, 4 February, 2009 , 16:13 AFP — The US Treasury on Wednesday designated the Free Life Party of Kurdistan a terrorist group, the department said in a statement.

Wednesday, 4 February, 2009 , 15:52 AFP —

Tuesday, 3 February, 2009 , 13:24 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region is to hold elections to its regional parliament in May, the legislature's speaker Adnan Mufti said on Tuesday, setting no date for provincial elections held in most of the rest of the country last weekend.

Tuesday, 3 February, 2009 , 12:33 AFP — Parliamentarians from the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq have agreed to hold provincial parliament elections on May 19, the speaker of the assembly said on Tuesday.

Saturday, 31 January, 2009 , 15:20 AFP — Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds stormed an electoral commission office in northeast Iraq on Saturday claiming they were displaced residents of Khanaqin and demanding to vote, an official said.

Thursday, 29 January, 2009 , 03:05 AFP — Athil al-Nujeifi, a leading candidate in the largely Sunni Arab province of Nineveh, has the simplest of campaign slogans for Saturday's Iraqi provincial elections: reverse the Kurdish takeover.

Tuesday, 27 January, 2009 , 21:21 AFP — An Iranian Kurd who sought asylum in Britain was handed a 50-week suspended jail sentence Tuesday for trying to burn down the Iranian embassy in London.

Tuesday, 27 January, 2009 , 13:24 AFP — Saddam Hussein's notorious hatchet man known as "Chemical Ali" and former deputy premier Tareq Aziz are among 16 former officials on trial in Iraq for a brutal 1980s campaign against Shiite Kurds, a court official said on Tuesday.