The militia wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party announced a cease-fire with immediate effect Saturday to halt decades of ...

On Saturday, the PKK declared an immediate ceasefire, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's ...

A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

Syria and Turkey would release Turkey and its military of a huge burden. If Kurds in neighboring Syria follow suit, it has the potential to calm a longstanding regional conflict and help stabilize ...

Here is what to know about the P.K.K. and its conflict with Turkey. The group began fighting the Turkish state in the early 1980s, originally seeking independence for the Kurds, who are believed ...

Since 2012, Syrian Kurds have been able to carve out a semi-autonomous region in northeast Syria, which they refer to as Rojava, meaning Western Kurdistan. Turkey has repeatedly targeted the ...

But in recent years the group has called for more autonomy within Turkey instead. Earlier this week, Ocalan noted how the mutual cooperation between Turks and Kurds was broken in the last 200 ...

Kurds in southeatern Turkey react after the PKK leader called on the group to disarm and dissolve "None of our forces will take armed action unless attacked," it added. The PKK, designated a ...

Across the mountainous Iraqi border, which for years saw PKK insurgents slip into Turkey to stage attacks, Kurds in Sulaymaniyah welcomed the ceasefire with hopeful expectation. Najmadin Bahaadin ...