Monday, 17 December, 2007 , 10:41 AFP — Kurdish PKK military chief Murat Karayilan might have been the target of the Turkish air strikes against the organisation in northeast Iraq, reports in Turkish newspapers suggested Monday.

Sunday, 9 December, 2007 , 18:04 AFP — The prime minister of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region said Sunday he will travel to Baghdad in a bid to resolve a dispute over his administration's controversial foreign oil deals.

Sunday, 9 December, 2007 , 13:00 AFP — Turkish police fired tear gas and used water cannons Sunday to break up protests in Istanbul by supporters of a Kurdish separatist group whose leader is serving a life term for treason.

Sunday, 9 December, 2007 , 10:17 AFP — Turkey is considering amnesty for Kurdish rebels whose separatist drive has claimed more than 37,000 lives since 1984, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying Sunday.

Thursday, 6 December, 2007 , 13:48 AFP — Insurgents attacked a security outpost north of Baghdad on Thursday and killed at least eight Kurdish peshmerga guards, Jabbar Yawar, head of peshmerga forces, told AFP.

Wednesday, 5 December, 2007 , 21:24 AFP — Eight Kurdish militants were killed in a military offensive against a rebel hideout in southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border Wednesday, the Turkish army said.

Wednesday, 5 December, 2007 , 08:58 AFP — Iraq's Shiites have turned on their Kurdish allies over the stormy issue of oil contracts with foreign companies, joining a furious Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani in declaring them invalid.

Tuesday, 4 December, 2007 , 15:46 AFP — Six Kurdish rebels and a soldier were killed Tuesday in fighting in southeastern Turkey near the Iraqi border, the Turkish military said.

Tuesday, 4 December, 2007 , 11:48 AFP — Two former lawyers for jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan face up to 15 years in prison on charges of belonging to the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a report said Tuesday.

Monday, 3 December, 2007 , 14:29 AFP — Arab and Kurdish parties in Iraq's oil city of Kirkuk have clinched a deal under which Arabs will end their boycott of the provincial council in return for a more equal sharing of power, an official said on Monday.