Initial steps to end a long war for Kurdish independence come with signs of national reconciliation. The first step: Each ...

The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK started laying down its weapons, marking the beginning of a disarmament process aimed at ...

The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, held a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq. It was the first concrete step ...

This is the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq which has its own government, called the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The KRG is a wealthy and relatively stable region of Iraq. It ...

Fighters with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began laying down their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony ...