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

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

ROME, Mar 5 2025 (IPS) - “The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the ...

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On Thursday, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) called on his organisation to lay down their arms and ...

Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party ... a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people since the PKK - now based in the mountains of northern Iraq - launched ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK ... has killed more than 40,000 people since the PKK – now based in the mountains of northern Iraq – launched its armed insurgency in 1984.

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

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an insurgency against ... and has seen the Turkish military using armed drones to drive many of its cadres across the mountain border into ...