The state still considers them terrorists. They are Kurdish children. The state must act immediately and extend its hand for ...

After the eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011, a PYD-affiliated armed group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), established control of Kurdish-majority areas in northern Syria. Under the banner ...

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the country's mix of sectarian and ethnic groups.

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Driven by renewed dialogue between Kurdish lawmakers and jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, the act—led by senior female ...

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish ...

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

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 ...

Energy relief. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa traveled to Baku and met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Energy was ...

Can a symbolic act of disarmament by the PKK mark the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the four-decade Kurdish ...

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.