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.

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.