Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. After a decades-long insurgency ...

Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, is in Washington this week. The ...

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

The first point of Kurdish criticism is the framing of Syria as an Arab state. Syria's composition is multi-colored (diverse), so from their perspective, it was necessary to remove the word "Arab ...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria announced Monday they have reached an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate Syrian citizens from a ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has formally declared its dissolution on Monday, marking a historic milestone that could bring an end to one of the world’s ...

Owing to Hawija’s proximity to Kirkuk, just an hour’s drive away, scores of IDPs from across ISIS territory traveled there, hoping to find a route into Kurdish-controlled territory.

The protesters, waving flags and chanting slogans, demanded the return of the king and the restoration of Hinduism as a state religion as they marched through the main circle in the capital ...