The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders. The latest effort to establish a peace process ...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of ...

A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups ...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, deputies of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), met on December 28 with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party ...

Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah have banned four organisations accused of affiliation with the Turkish-blacklisted Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), activists said Thursday ...

Abdullah Öcalan, founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers party (PKK), told opposition lawmakers visiting his prison on an island south of Istanbul over the weekend that he was willing to support ...

The announcement comes amid increased hopes for an end to a decadeslong insurgency waged by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeast Turkey as well as the advent of a new leadership ...

On Friday, the government approved DEM's request to visit Ocalan, who founded the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) nearly half a century ago and has languished in solitary confinement since 1999.