Since 1984, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that has cost over 40,000 ...

By Ako Rasheed SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant ...

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...

Building on the broader analysis presented in Part I, this second article focuses on the internal political and strategic ...

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the first step toward the group’s promised disarmament. The move on ...

It wraps up a carefully planned sequence of gestures and messages, and shows that both sides are not just coordinating ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) has laid down its weapons following negotiations with ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with ...

Drone attacks in Iraq have become more frequent in recent months, though this is the first attack near Sulaymaniyah in months ...

Footage from the ceremony showed the fighters, half of them women, queuing to place AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and ...