Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pro-Kurd protesters hold flags with portraits of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan. February 16, 2019.

After days of fighting, the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed on Sunday to bring ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern ...

ANKARA/BAGHDAD July 1 (Reuters) - The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons within days, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AK Party said on Tuesday, the clearest sign yet ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq -- Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern ...

ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - Militant fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will begin handing over weapons in groups in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday as part of a peace ...

On February 27, 2025, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, made a landmark declaration from his imprisonment on İmralı Island, in Turkey, urging the group to halt all ...

The Kurds are widely believed to be the largest stateless ethnic group in the world.

(Reuters) -The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group said on Sunday it was withdrawing from Turkey as part of a disarmament process it is coordinating with the government, and pressed ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) has laid down its weapons following negotiations with Turkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) ...

For decades, the Turkish army has operated in northern Iraq. It has established bases and posts in the mountainous Kurdish region. This is the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq which has ...