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.

Friday, 7 March, 2008 , 21:01 AFP — The leaders of Iraq and Turkey pledged Friday to take measures against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq during talks to soothe tensions following a Turkish cross-border offensive against the militants.

Thursday, 6 March, 2008 , 19:10 AFP — The United States said Thursday it was closely watching Turkey's campaign against separatist Kurdish fighters based in Iraq and firmly backed its ally's refusal to negotiate with the rebels.

Thursday, 6 March, 2008 , 14:26 AFP — Kurdish protestors and police clashed in eastern Turkey leaving one demonstrator dead and 14 police injured, police and media reports said Thursday, amid contradictory accounts of the death.

Thursday, 6 March, 2008 , 12:14 AFP — The Council of Europe's anti-torture body urged Turkey Thursday to end the solitary confinement of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, highlighting the threat to his mental health.

Thursday, 6 March, 2008 , 10:56 AFP — The Council of Europe's anti-torture committee Thursday urged Turkey to end the solitary confinement of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan highlighting the threat to his mental health.

Thursday, 6 March, 2008 , 09:44 AFP — "I'm a fighter on the inside, my priority is to defend Kurdistan," said a female college student in Dohuk, a mountainous snowbound town in far northern Iraq near the border with Turkey.

Wednesday, 5 March, 2008 , 16:08 AFP — A Kurdish academic who served as Iraqi labour minister in the 1970s was gunned down near the disputed northern oil city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, police said.