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.

Sunday, 25 January, 2009 , 19:30 AFP — Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the president of its autonomous Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, exchanged barbs on Sunday in the run-up to this month's provincial elections.

Wednesday, 14 January, 2009 , 15:44 AFP — Turkish and Iranian artillery have pounded Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq's northern mountains for the past two days, a spokesman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 13 January, 2009 , 15:33 AFP — French police on Tuesday arrested seven alleged Kurdish separatist militants accused of running a protection racket in the southern city of Marseille, police said.

Tuesday, 13 January, 2009 , 08:50 AFP — Iran's revolutionary court has sentenced a Kurdish political activist to a 20-year jail term for membership of an illegal party, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Sunday, 11 January, 2009 , 09:00 AFP — Massud Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan, has met with Turkish envoys in the wake of a spate of bombings by Ankara in Iraq's northern region, his office said on Sunday.

Tuesday, 6 January, 2009 , 16:01 AFP — A newspaper editor faces up to five years in jail for publishing reports that accused the Turkish army of ignoring intelligence on a deadly Kurdish rebel raid, the daily's chief editor said Tuesday.