Turkey on Thursday insisted the PKK and all groups allied with it must disarm and disband “immediately”, a week after a ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki promised Saturday to smoke out Kurdish separatist rebels using Iraq as a base to launch attacks into neighboring Turkey. The Iraqi leader spoke at a gathering of ...

But the PKK, mostly based in the mountains of northern ... Their presence has long been a source of tension between Iraq and Turkey, which also maintains military bases in Kurdistan and carries out ...

Iraq’s Kurdistan regional president Nechirvan Barzani on Thursday welcomed jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the ...

The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is ...

pummeling PKK fighters who have been hiding out in sanctuaries in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region, and have set up bases in the area. Scores of villages have been completely emptied ...

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Turkey routinely carries out airstrikes and ground operations in northern Iraq, where the PKK has established bases and training camps. The Turkish government argues that these cross-border ...

Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the Turkish defense ministry said Thursday, even as the militants' imprisoned leader called on his group to ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency against the government in neighboring Turkey ...