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

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

By Ako Rasheed SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth ...

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades of hostilities.

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, ...

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 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 ...

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

PKK fighters destroy weapons in historic ceremony, marking transition from armed insurgency to democratic politics.

ANKARA, Turkey — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their ...