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Introduction by IPT Executive Director Steven Emerson: "Yesterday, July 8, the IPT republished a very important analysis of ...
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK, appeared in a rare video to declare the end of the group's armed struggle against Turkey, urging a transition to democratic politics. His message ...
It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.The PKK had said it would lay down its arms ...
ANKARA, Turkey -- The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place ...
The PKK militants are set to begin disarmament in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, as part of a peace initiative with Turkey. DEM party's ...
In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey ...
More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with ...
Kurdistan, a small semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq that has been surrounded by war throughout history, was in the Cannes spotlight on Wednesday, presenting its newly launched film ...
Iraqi Kurdistan is now experiencing a wider economic downturn, as the region’s limited private sector is also being affected by the salary crisis. Public sector employees make up a significant ...
07/03/2024 Women victims of domestic violence in Iraqi Kurdistan do not get the help they deserve, Amnesty International has said. A report shows courts favor male suspects even as many women are ...
Girls walk to class on the first day of school in a Yazidi displacement camp about 9 miles from the city of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Nov. 1, 2021. ISMAEL ADNAN/AFP via Getty Images ...