Wednesday, 11 February, 2009 , 17:28 AFP — The Kurdish regional parliament in north Iraq on Wednesday reserved 33 seats for women in the 111-member house under amendments to the election law ahead of polls due on May 19, its speaker said.

Monday, 9 February, 2009 , 14:00 AFP — Foreigners who enter Iraq through the Kurdish north of the country without a visa issued by the authorities in Baghdad will face arrest and legal charges, the interior ministry warned on Monday.

Sunday, 8 February, 2009 , 16:35 AFP — Qatar may open a consulate in Iraq's northern Kurdish region while the Kurds may set up an office in Doha as part of plans to improve diplomatic ties, the official Qana news agency said on Sunday.

Friday, 6 February, 2009 , 15:38 AFP — Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq this week, the Anatolia news agency reported Friday, quoting an army spokesman.

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.