France was also among the first countries to open a consulate in Erbil after the fall of toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 and strongly supported Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the fight ...

Particularly in fragile regions such as Kurdistan and Iraq, these impacts are already clearly visible. The interplay of ecological changes, political instability, and socioeconomic challenges ...

But it’s very difficult.” Kurdish flags were on display at a Nowruz celebration near Qamishl. Ali Ahmed, 55, a Kurd from the northeastern city of Hasakah who teaches chemistry, called Mr. al ...

Five members of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces were wounded in two separate drone attacks targeting military positions in northern Iraq’s Duhok province, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is poised to declare the dissolution of its armed wing and a formal end to its decades-long conflict with Turkey, sources told Middle East Eye. The anticipated ...

(CNN) — The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Monday it would dissolve itself, in what would be a historic move after decades of conflict with Turkey that have killed tens of thousands of ...

The congress followed a February appeal by imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan for the group to dissolve and end its four-decade insurgency with Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has ...

ISTANBUL — Sirri Sureyya Onder, a key figure in Turkey’s latest effort to end the four-decade Kurdish conflict, died Saturday. He was 62. Onder died of multiple organ failure 18 days after he ...

Mothers of young people who they say were recruited by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gather outside the local office of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, as PKK disbands and ends 40-year ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Kurdish militant group announced a historic decision Monday to disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, after four decades of armed conflict.