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.

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.