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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish lawmakers in Baghdad strongly criticized a decision by the federal government to ban the use of the Kurdish language in educational settings in disputed areas.Earlier ...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday warned Kurdish and other groups in Syria against pursuing ...
Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish livestock owners and ...
Paris will host talks between Syria, France and the United States "as soon as possible" to integrate the autonomous Kurdish ...
Dutch photojournalist Michiel Hegener, known for his photographs of the Kurdish revolutionary movement in the 1970s, returns to Kurdistan. Dressed in the same Kurdish attire he wore decades ago, he is ...
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...
The Kurdish issue has come “to a point where it can be resolved through democratic politics,” the PKK said in a statement at the time. In a rare video statement this week, the leader urged the Turkish ...
Hours later, the anti-terrorism department said the Baadre oil field, located in the Sheikhan district of Dohuk province, was ...
Footage from the ceremony showed the fighters, half of them women, queuing to place AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and ...
The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that ...
The US would allow Kurdish militant leaders in Syria and Turkey to resettle in America if doing so would help support their groups’ transition from armed struggle to civilian life, a top diplomat said ...
ANKARA, Turkey — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place ...