After its four-decade insurgency against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has symbolically laid down its arms. The historic turning point presents opportunities and challenges for ...

The Kurds are the world’s largest stateless ethnic group, with an estimated 25 to 30 million people living as minorities across Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkiye. Fragmentation and complex regional ...

Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...

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

Authoritarianism in the Middle East To grasp the Kurds’ potential as stabilizing actors, one must understand the recent political history of the region.

A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...

The ambassador's missteps reflect a poor grasp of the region’s complex dynamics and jeopardize opportunities for peace ...

The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decades long series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars.

A group of 30 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters ceremonially threw their weapons into a fire on Friday, as a large ...

We spoke with DEM Party Co-Chair Bakırhan about the debates on resolving the Kurdish question, the operations targeting the ...