President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift sanctions on Syria. The turnaround was a huge victory for the government of Syrian President ...

Ties between the Turkish state and the country's Kurdish minority need to be healed, the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) ...

Both Iraq and Syria would benefit from having Turkish troops withdraw. Politics at home in Turkey can also be transformed.

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups ...

The PKK has "waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984", said Politico. Originally, it aimed to create an ...

Kurdish and Turkish statements indicate both sides recognize the limits of violence. Yet the PKK says an expected quid pro ...

It is essential to expose the underlying grounds of the process that led the PKK to dissolve itself and the falsity of its ...

Rewind: The Gitmo operations began after Trump ordered an expansion of the base in an escalation of U.S. efforts to deport ...

The decision to disarm will have significant security and political ramifications for the region.

Turkey is embarking on a hazardous path to ensure the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group implements its decision to ...

In our news wrap Monday, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party says it's laying down its weapons and disbanding after reaching a peace ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated ...