Strengthening ties between the Kurds and Israel could counterbalance Turkish and Iranian ambitions, promote regional ...

Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have endured irregular and delayed salary payments for more than ...

The image of the two men meeting, having discarded their military uniforms and put on suits, illustrates how leaders can ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of l ...

Turkey’s Kurdish militants declared an immediate ceasefire in their 40-year war against the Turkish state. The timing was significant. This ...

Turkish intelligence officers met with Mr. Ocalan in prison to map out a plan for his fighters to disarm, and Kurdish politicians ferried messages between him and his associates in northern Iraq.

In Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari, an Iraqi-Kurdish politician who served as foreign ... Ocalan) has developed a new road map as an answer to the suffering that has been going on in this country for years, ...

Regionally, the move could redraw the map of alliances, especially if it succeeds in achieving a Turkish-Kurdish rapprochement that leads to de-escalation in Syria and Iraq. For all the hopes that ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

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