Israel's war on Gaza and the fall of Assad have rattled the region, but as history shows, there is often more continuity than ...

As Turkey stands on the brink of peace between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a co-founder of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Friday that Kurdish identity and ...

In a detailed and exclusive interview with IANS, Michael Rubin, a leading expert on the Middle East, dissects the complex ...

Erdoğan’s outreach to Kurdish forces may signal peace — or a bid to secure support for extending his presidency by fracturing ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah honoured veteran actress Shabana Azmi with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th International Film Festival in Bengaluru. Legendary lyricist Javed Akhtar ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish group PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. His statement, read out in a letter by MPs from a pro-Kurdish ...

A schoolboy drowned when his hand was sucked into a swimming pool filter in Indonesia. Bagja Nurjaman, 6, was paddling underwater at the 3ft pool at the ANB Resort and Hotels in the Garut Regency, on ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In their first response to Abdullah Ocalan’s call to lay down arms, an umbrella group of the ...

The HIndu profiles on Abdullah Öcalan, former PKK leader, calls for peace and dissolution of the group after decades of ...

Although developments towards ending violence in the Kurdish issue are positive, the process is part of AKP and MHP’s efforts to sustain their collapsing regime and aims to align with the new order of ...