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 ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has announced the end of the group’s armed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the ...

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.

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 ...

The Kurds can also use the threat of large numbers of refugees to rattle the West. A full takeover of Kurdistan by central Iraq could trigger an exodus to Turkey and thence to Europe.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs.Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad ...

Many of Turkey's Kurds are set to put aside party loyalty and back Tayyip Erdogan's major rival in Istanbul on Sunday, knocking the president's hopes of winning back the city he once ran ...