Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) on Thursday condemned the Iraqi army for labeling its captured ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi army and an armed group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) clashed in ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

The confrontation resulted in five Iraqi policemen and three YBS fighters being injured, with one police officer suffering ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

His remarks came two weeks after Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), urged his fighters to disarm and disband, ending a decades-long insurgency that has claimed tens ...

Strategic Research Center warns that while most Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters are likely to disarm if a peace agreement with Turkey comes to fruition, some may break away and continue the ...

The militia alliance that controls much of north-eastern Syria will merge with new state institutions, the presidency says.

The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...

The outlawed Kurdish PKK said it was currently "impossible" for its leadership to safely meet to formally dissolve the group in line with a demand by its jailed founder, Kurdish media reported Friday.