Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi army and an armed group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) clashed in ...

Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) on Thursday condemned the Iraqi army for labeling its captured ...

has designated the PKK a terrorist organization, as have the United States and the European Union. The Turkish army, which ...

With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the country’s future. The recent agreement between Damascus and the Kurdish-led ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (right) shakes the hand of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander-in-Chief ...

At least nine members of the same family, including seven children, were killed in an alleged Turkish drone strike on a rural area near Kobani.

The United States encouraged its Syrian Kurdish allies to reach Monday's landmark deal with the Islamist-led government in ...