Kurds in northeast Syria have suffered significant territorial and political setbacks, while Kurds in Turkey continue to lack ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The Kurdish militant group PKK announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of hostilities.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it will disband and disarm following its more than four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state that has resulted in the deaths of over ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The one-year anniversary of the latest self-dissolution declaration by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small ...

Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an insurgency against Turkish authorities for more than four decades have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

July 11 (UPI) --The Kurdish militant group PKK took its first step toward peace with Turkey as it burned weapons after 40 years of conflict. The group of 30 PKK members went to a cave near ...

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday. As ...

A first group of PKK militants burnt their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq — Shwan MOHAMMED Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on ...

Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The PKK Kurdish militant group announced Monday that it will disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of armed conflict. The decision by ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The PKK Kurdish militant group announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of hostilities.