After nearly five decades of armed insurgency, the PKK has officially ended its armed struggle—a turning point not only for ...

Azerbaijan, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and Qatar on Tuesday marked the ninth anniversary of the July 15, ...

It must have been difficult for Hezbollah to watch the public ceremony in which the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters burned their rifles with their own hands. The scenes symbolized the ...

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

Kurdish militants destroy weapons Hopes for economic revival Turkey’s southeast gains Turkey is hoping the apparent end to a four decades-long conflict with a Kurdish separatist group will ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is aiming to replace his prime minister in a massive restructuring of the nation's government.

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

Perhaps we witnessed the most concrete and tangible steps ever taken toward peace; top-down and bottom-up. Despite its weight ...

Can a symbolic act of disarmament by the PKK mark the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the four-decade Kurdish ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed start of a disarmament process by militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a "painful chapter" in Turkey's troubled history.

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