Friday, 14 March, 2008 , 12:51 AFP — Norwegian oil company DNO International said Friday it had revised an agreement with Kurdish authorities on splitting oil production in two licensing areas in northern Iraq.
Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 17:16 AFP — A presumed former lover of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has been arrested in Germany on charges of belonging to the banned PKK, authorities said Thursday.
Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 15:36 AFP — Turkish troops killed 10 Kurdish rebels, among them a woman, in a security operation in the country's southeast near the Iraqi border, the Turkish army said Thursday.
Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 13:28 AFP — Iranian security forces have killed members of two "terrorist" cells who crossed the Iraqi border to a Kurdish-populated province ahead of parliamentary polls, the Mehr news agency reported Thursday.
Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 12:02 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday the government would launch a Kurdish-language television channel and invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects in the Kurdish-majority southeast.
Thursday, 13 March, 2008 , 09:10 AFP — The Iranian military on Thursday subjected three Iraqi border villages to an early-morning barrage of shelling, causing no injuries or damage but scaring residents, an Iraqi official said.
Monday, 10 March, 2008 , 16:52 AFP — A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car outside a luxury hotel in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah on Monday, killing one person and wounding 13, Sulaimaniyah's governor said.
Monday, 10 March, 2008 , 16:28 AFP — A powerful explosion rocked the normally peaceful city of Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq late Monday, an AFP journalist reported.
Saturday, 8 March, 2008 , 17:05 AFP — The Turkish army said Saturday it has carved out six temporary "security zones" along the southeastern border with Iraq, to be patrolled by the military for three months from June 11.
Saturday, 8 March, 2008 , 11:06 AFP — Baghdad will block any contracts signed by foreign oil companies with Iraqi Kurdish regional authorities, Iraq's Oil Minister Hussein Chahristani said on Saturday.
