A picture of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a shop in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli that is controlled by ...

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

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

They were marched across the Kurdish mountains from campsite to campsite and town to town, being shown off to the locals to raise morale. He now says, a little unfairly to himself, that his decision ...

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

which uses a stronghold in the Qandil Mountains, located roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of the Turkish border in Irbil. Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by the PKK's active threat in the ...

Story continues below this ad Starting from the mountains in eastern and southern Turkey ... Since his incarceration, Ocalan has shifted its ideology away from secession and toward Kurdish rights ...

holed up mostly in the Qandil mountains of Iraq, and their affiliates in Syria will now be put to the test. The last attempt to secure peace included discussions on boosting Kurdish cultural and ...

Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is the city closest to the PKK’s headquarters in the Qandil mountains and many locals support the group.

Kurdish militants, who have waged a 40-year ... has killed more than 40,000 people since the PKK — now based in the mountains of northern Iraq — launched its armed insurgency in 1984.

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

Iraqi Kurdish villagers avoid talking about their ... “Back in the 1970s, all the hills on this mountain were full of vines and fig farms. We grew wheat, sesame, and rice. We ate everything ...