Despite six parliamentary terms, the Kurdistan Parliament has yet to pass a bill recognizing the 1988 chemical attack on ...

The Iraqi government has agreed to fund the salaries and budget for 138,000 peshmerga forces, despite the actual number being ...

The Home Office has released a new campaign targeting Iraqi and Iraqi-Kurdish nationals to deter them from paying smugglers ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged the ceasefire as a potential step toward peace, he has also ...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Sunday to crush the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) if it refuses to adhere to the call made by its jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to lay down ...

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After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

After a 40-year conflict with Turkey that has killed 40,000 people, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, declared ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

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Students will die but will not accept humiliation.” As the mullahs try to blame Israel, America, and Western nations for ...