It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.The PKK had said it would lay down its arms ...

In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey ...

The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place as a first ...

More than 200 Kurds are currently being held in prisons across Afrin, northwestern Syria, due to their ethnicity and ...

Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that peace efforts with Kurds would gain momentum after PKK militants begin ...

Meanwhile, Kurds, Palestinians, and ordinary people throughout the Middle East will be left to suffer on the frontlines of a worsening proxy conflict. Project 2025.

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.

The Kurds did this not out of naivety but out of a deep-rooted belief that our cultural values of peaceful coexistence, freedom, women’s rights and democracy are closely aligned; therefore, the ...

Kurds, often considered the world's largest stateless people, primarily inhabit territory spanning Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, with Iranian Kurds mostly present in the northwestern provinces of ...

Kurds have even fought each other, notably in Iraq, when the rival Peshmerga militias loyal to the two main parties fought a mini-civil war in the mid-nineteen-nineties.

In an unprecedented moment, Kurds across the Middle East are under attack from all sides. While the West is distracted, Iran and Turkey launch attacks on ethnic group for domestic gains ...