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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supporters attend a rally airing a televised statement by Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader and founder of Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in Syria's predominantly Kurdish northeastern city ...

July 11 (UPI) --The Kurdish militant group PKK took its first step toward peace with Turkey as it burned weapons after 40 years of conflict. The group of 30 PKK members went to a cave near ...

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 ...

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

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 ...