The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that ...

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

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met on Friday with a delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and ...

Veteran Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk on Friday said the symbolic disarmament of a group of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ...

Kurdistan will, at best, find itself in an unstable region and, at worst, will be surrounded by hostile powers resentful of its independence and disputing both its borders and claim to resources.

But as we’re likely about to see as Kurdish voters head to the polls for a controversial independence referendum on Monday that friendship has limits.

A ceremony is scheduled today in Iraqi Kurdistan to mark the movement's farewell to arms. Its leader Öcalan recently praised ...

About 30 Kurdish PKK fighters have symbolically laid down arms in Iraqi Kurdistan, marking the start of a historic disarmament.

AKURDISH independence movement was officially inaugurated at the San Francisco Conference in April 1945, in a letter addressed to the delegates in the name of the Kurdish League. The letter was ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has called on his followers to ...

Due to sensitivities over the abandonment of the insurgency, the fighters will destroy rather than surrender their weapons.