Thursday, 1 February, 2007 , 17:45 AFP — A grave containing the bodies of 200-250 Kurdish prisoners has been found in the deserted province of Muthanna near the border with Saudi Arabia, a provincial official said on Thursday.

Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 , 17:27 AFP — The United States is considering "many actions" to curb Turkish Kurd rebels based in northern Iraq and believes it can count on the help of the region's Iraqi Kurdish leaders, a US envoy said here Tuesday. Joseph W. Ralston, special coordinator of efforts against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), made the comment after talks with Turkish officials amid growing anger here over Washington's failure to fulfil pledges to move against the group, listed as a terrorist group by both countries.

Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 , 14:23 AFP — A US special envoy began talks with Turkish officials Tuesday on how to combat separatist Kurds based in neighbouring northern Iraq, amid growing anger here over Washington's failure to fulfill its pledges to curb the militants.

Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 , 09:19 AFP — Eleven Kurdish Shiite pilgrims were killed Tuesday when a bomb stashed in a bin exploded as they were heading to a religious site in eastern Iraq for the Ashura mourning rite, police said.

Monday, 29 January, 2007 , 17:07 AFP — Prosecutors on Monday presented the Iraqi court trying six former regime officials with evidence of detention camps set up allegedly to torture thousands of Kurds during a military campaign in 1988.

Sunday, 28 January, 2007 , 15:35 AFP — "Chemical Ali", a cousin of Saddam Hussein and lead defendant in the genocide trial of six former regime officials, on Sunday defended having ordered a military campaign against Iraqi Kurdish villagers.

Sunday, 28 January, 2007 , 14:25 AFP — An Iraqi prosecutor Sunday presented what he said was documentary proof executed dictator Saddam Hussein's cousin was linked to "chemical strikes" in Iraqi Kurdistan and had ordered dozens of villages demolished.

Wednesday, 24 January, 2007 , 11:23 AFP — Security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan have released nine out of a group of 15 local Islamists arrested a month ago for alleged links with Sunni insurgents, a security official said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 23 January, 2007 , 17:27 AFP — Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" on Tuesday told an Iraqi court that his anti-Kurdish outbursts during a 1988 military campaign were tactics aimed at intimidating Kurdish guerrillas.

Tuesday, 23 January, 2007 , 00:54 AFP — A new oil law in Iraq that was announced as headed to cabinet for endorsement last week has not yet been agreed and there is still much that needs to be resolved, a minister in the Kurdistan Regional Government said in an interview published in the Financial Times on Tuesday.