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Kurdish separatist fighters in Iraq begin laying down weapons as part of peace process with Turkey
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...
For Iraq's Kurdistan area, Kurdish-Turkey deal provides hope for new era in region
The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
Key dates in PKK Kurdish militant group's decades-long armed struggle against Turkey
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...
What to know about the latest effort to end Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict
A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...
How does the PKK’s disarmament affect Turkey, Syria and Iraq?
The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...