Something remarkable happened last week, though it didn’t get the attention it deserved: A long and brutal war came to an end ...

The European Union (EU) has announced strong new sanctions against three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders. This ...

A separatist Kurdish group agreed to lay down arms to end a 40-year war for autonomy against Turkey, a historic step that could strengthen Ankara’s aspirations to become a regional powerhouse.

Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an ... two days after the leader of the militant PKK group, Abdullah Ocalan, whom Turkey has held in prison since 1999, called on his ...

The Kurds are an ethnic group of roughly 40 million people — there are widely varying estimates — concentrated in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. They speak multiple dialects of Kurdish ...

The PKK has "waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984", said Politico. Originally, it aimed to create an ...

After more than a four-decade insurgency carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against Turkey, the US-designated terror group, says it has abandoned its armed struggle against Ankara.

Turkey accuses these groups of being aligned with the Kurdistan ... Turkey’s efforts have resulted in mass displacement and ethnic cleansing along its border with Syria. The Syrian regime ...

Kurds are an ethnic group of at least 30 million people who were split between Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran when Western allies redrew borders following the end of World War I. The PKK was founded ...

Part of a stateless ethnic group straddling Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria, Kurds have so far been among the few winners of the Syrian conflict, controlling nearly a quarter of the country ...

Turkey is a key backer of Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ... December 8 revolution by stirring up ethnic and religious affiliations and turning ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Several thousand Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of the northern half of ethnically divided Cyprus’ capital Nicosia on Friday to protest what they say is Turkey’s ...