Friday, 8 December, 2006 , 13:03 AFP — The president of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region issued a strongly worded rebuke Friday of the Iraq Study Group's report on the situation in Iraq and recommendations for US policy, describing it as "unrealistic and inappropriate".

Thursday, 7 December, 2006 , 19:50 AFP — The US Treasury Thursday blacklisted five men, including a Kurdish militant living in Oslo known as Mullah Krekar and a Moroccan-born Swede, for aiding terrorism by Al-Qaeda and other groups.

Thursday, 7 December, 2006 , 15:14 AFP — The prime minister of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region said on Thursday talks with the central government on budgets and oil had failed, further threatening the unity of the fragile country.

Thursday, 7 December, 2006 , 13:08 AFP — A prominent leader of the rebel Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) announced Thursday that he had broken away to form his own party with several other senior members.

Wednesday, 6 December, 2006 , 07:41 AFP — Two roadside blasts blamed on the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have killed three soldiers in southeast Turkey, officials said on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 5 December, 2006 , 12:58 AFP — Five Kurdish rebels were killed in clashes with the army in southeast Turkey despite a ceasefire the militants called in October, the Turkish general staff said in a statement here Tuesday.

Tuesday, 28 November, 2006 , 15:50 AFP — A forensic expert testified in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial on Tuesday showing slides of mass graves and pictures of skulls and skeletons of Iraqi Kurds shot dead and gassed in 1988.

Tuesday, 28 November, 2006 , 15:16 AFP — A forensic expert testified in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial on Tuesday showing slides of mass graves and pictures of skulls and skeletons of Iraqi Kurds shot dead and gassed in 1988.

Tuesday, 28 November, 2006 , 05:30 AFP — It took just a few minutes inside the offices of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the mountain village to figure out who was their leader.

Monday, 27 November, 2006 , 02:01 AFP — Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide charges resumes in Baghdad Monday with more Kurdish witnesses testifying one week after a human rights watchdog highlighted what it called fundamental flaws in the deposed Iraqi president's first trial.