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

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

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) ...

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.

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.

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

As the president’s traditional support wanes, he is seeking a risky deal with the Kurds to buy a political lifeline. But is ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...

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