The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the ...

Initial steps to end a long war for Kurdish independence come with signs of national reconciliation. The first step: Each ...

In the 1990s when the Turkish government fought a pitiless war against the PKK, banned Kurdish language, criminalized ...

President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with ...

Iraqi Kurdistan will resume oil exports through a pipeline to Turkey after a two-year halt, Iraq's federal government said on ...

Iraq approved a plan for its semi-autonomous Kurdish region to transfer oil to Baghdad, a step toward resuming exports that ...

South-east Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at ...

Tankers could soon be lifting Iraqi oil from the Turkish port of Ceyhan once again as a key pipeline reopens. The government ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

After its four-decade insurgency against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has symbolically laid down its arms. The historic turning point presents opportunities and challenges for ...