Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at ...

US policy is to have one Syria and one army there and not support federalism. US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack has a clear ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed the disarmament of the Kurdish PKK militant group as a victory for his country after its members ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...

The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.

After almost half a century, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has agreed to disband following an order given by its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan. The founding of the party in 1978 by a ...

After decades of insurgency, the PKK plans to disarm and disband. Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria.