Monday, 7 May, 2007 , 15:13 AFP — Four Kurdish militants, including one woman, were sentenced Monday to life in jail for a 1999 petrol bomb attack on an Istanbul shopping mall that killed 13 people, Anatolia news agency reported.

Wednesday, 2 May, 2007 , 09:41 AFP — Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani warned on Wednesday that any oil contracts signed by northern Iraq's Kurdish regional government before a new oil law is passed would be considered invalid.

Tuesday, 1 May, 2007 , 02:39 AFP — A movie set against the backdrop of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq scooped two awards for Kurdish film maker Shawkat Amin Korki at the Singapore International Film Festival.

Thursday, 26 April, 2007 , 05:42 AFP — Two car bombs and a suicide bomb attack targeting a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq killed three peshmerga fighters and wounded 13 others on Thursday, spokesman for the party said.

Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 , 07:04 AFP — Iraq's relatively peaceful northern region of Kurdistan is witnessing a large number of so-called "honour killings" of women, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq said Wednesday.

Monday, 23 April, 2007 , 07:33 AFP — A car bomb near an office of a Kurdish political party in a mainly Christian village of northern Iraq killed at least 10 people and wounded 20 on Monday, an official with the party told AFP.

Monday, 23 April, 2007 , 07:25 AFP — A car bomb near an office of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq killed at least 10 people and wounded 20 on Monday, an official with the party told AFP.

Sunday, 22 April, 2007 , 11:39 AFP — A Turkish soldier has been killed in a clash with separatist rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeast Turkey, officials said Sunday.

Saturday, 21 April, 2007 , 10:50 AFP — Gunmen massacred a Kurdish Shiite family in Iraq's northern oil hub of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing an eight-year-old girl, her elder sister and and parents, police and a medic said.

Saturday, 21 April, 2007 , 10:28 AFP — A nine-year-old boy was killed and two others, aged nine and 10, were injured in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey on Saturday when an object they found in the street exploded, the Anatolia news agency reported.