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.

Sunday, 21 January, 2007 , 13:22 AFP — The political group of radical anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr announced Sunday it has ended a two-month boycott of the Iraqi government in a boost for embattled Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Thursday, 18 January, 2007 , 19:03 AFP — Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Thursday that Turkey cannot remain indifferent to the welfare of the Turkmens in northern Iraq, an ethnic community of Turkish descent which claims oppression by Kurds controlling the region.

Thursday, 18 January, 2007 , 18:09 AFP — A senior US official promised here Thursday "serious efforts" to curb Turkish Kurd rebels based in northern Iraq, an issue that has long poisoned US ties with Turkey.

Thursday, 18 January, 2007 , 12:50 AFP — Europe's top court ruled Thursday that the now defunct Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) can appeal against its inclusion on the European Union's terror blacklist in 2002.

Wednesday, 17 January, 2007 , 11:02 AFP — Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked for an independent commission to look into the bloody 22-year conflict with Turkey to pave the way for a reconciliation, the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency reported Wednesday.

Wednesday, 17 January, 2007 , 06:44 AFP — One of five Iranians arrested by US forces in Iraq last week is the suspected leader of a commando team that assassinated three Iranian Kurds in Vienna in 1989, Austrian public radio has reported.

Thursday, 11 January, 2007 , 18:25 AFP — Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" told Iraq's genocide trial Thursday that he ordered troops to execute villagers who refused to leave their homes during a brutal anti-Kurdish operation.