For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...

Greetings from a sweltering Ankara.This week in Turkey was one of striking contrasts: While peace talks with Kurdish ...

DUKAN, Kurdistan Region - Gulbahar Ersoy* sat quietly in the crowd gathered outside a hotel in Kurdistan Region’s Sulaimani province where dozens of politicians, activists, and journalists had ...

In the past 18 months, huge geopolitical shifts and wars across the region have brought home the reality of conflict's ...

Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a ...

The group took up arms in 1984, beginning a string of bloody attacks on Turkish soil that sparked a conflict that cost more ...

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday ...

Fighters from PKK begin symbolic disarmament in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, ending decades-long battle with Turkiye.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants will hand over their weapons in a ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday denied reports that Turkey had filed an extradition request against veteran Cypriot ...

Fighters with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began laying down their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony marking a first step toward a promised disarmament.

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...