The PKK said the step reflected the group’s commitment to the disarmament and integration process - Thaier Al-Sudani/REUTERS A Kurdish militant group that waged a 40-year insurgency against the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Syria’s defense minister announced a ceasefire Tuesday after overnight clashes between government forces and ...

Armed drones and tanks in the streets of Sulaymaniyah, the second city of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, were a shocking sight in August in what was once the most stable part of Iraq. The ...

Forces of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) raided the private Assyrian Christian schools in the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli, shutting them down by force on Monday 29 September, several ...

The export availability of crude oil from Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan continues to increase after the pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish Mediterranean coast resumed flows on ...

The Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria houses thousands of suspected Islamic State group members and their families. — Delil SOULEIMAN Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an ...

A senior political figure in Syria’s Kurdish-led autonomous administration has warned that the region may be forced to seek independence if a decentralized political system is not established in the ...

The Kurdish language has faced many challenges in recent history, including being banned at different times in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, with heavy restrictions often placed on Kurdish-language media ...

For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for fear of regional backlash or instability. But the realities on the ground ...

The sudden reason for the arrest of Lahur Talabany is not clear but it casts a potential shadow over the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A gun battle took place in the Kurdistan region of northern ...

On February 27, 2025, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, made a landmark declaration from his imprisonment on İmralı Island, in Turkey, urging the group to halt all ...

On July 11, 2025, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call to disarm and dissolve the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 30 guerrillas symbolically burned their weapons in Jasana Cave, Slêmanî, a historic symbol ...