I n a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband.

Amid the latest church attack, Syria stands united, its people embracing their one Syrian national identity and shared roots ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The country's restored unity, fractured by autonomy demands, will depend on the success of the process, with a ...

It also comes nearly two weeks after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

In September 2014, Öcalan called for the Kurds to start an “all-out resistance” to fight IS. In the process, the SDF carved out a semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Syria.

Sarah Glynn reviews the week’s extraordinary events in Syria and examines the evolution and nature of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, ... (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been imprisoned by the Turkish ...

Following Abdullah Öcalan’s call for disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Syrian Kurdish leaders said the statement doesn't concern Kurdish-led groups controlling the country's north and ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish ... It also comes nearly two weeks after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his followers in ...

In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband. He ...