On Thursday, a delegation of Kurdish politicians announced Ocalan’s call for the PKK to lay down its arms and disband after visiting him on his island prison. In its statement, the PKK’s ...

QAMISHLI, Syria March 9 (Reuters) - The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said on Sunday the country's interim president must hold the perpetrators of communal violence in Syria's coastal ...

By Safak Timur and Carlotta Gall The Kurdish guerrilla group that has been fighting a long-running insurgency against Turkey declared a cease-fire on Saturday, days after a call from its jailed ...

Here's a primer on Syria's main Kurdish groups and their PKK ties. After the start of Syria's civil war in 2011, a Kurdish armed group - the People's Protection Units (YPG) - established control ...

ISTANBUL — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has ...

Tensions are escalating in Syria's southern province of Suwayda between local Druze residents and the Sunni-led central government, as the latter seeks to assert its authority in the Druze ...

Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast. But in recent years the group has called for more autonomy within ...

The Iraqi Ministry of Planning on Monday announced the final results of the country's first census in nearly 40 years, showing that Iraq's population has reached 46.1 million. According to the ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday, two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm. The statement from the ...

(Reuters) -The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's ...