The autonomous Kurdistan region already enjoys historic warm ties with the US. Not only did the region take shape in the wake ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring ...

President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift sanctions on Syria.

The PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has waged a decades-long secessionist movement inside Turkey, recently announced ...

A Swedish journalist who was arrested in Turkey in March when he traveled there to cover nationwide protests has been ...

After over 40 years of fighting, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organization by many countries, has officially laid down its arms and dissolved.

The jailing by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of a key political opponent is a blatant repudiation of the rights ...

"We want to want to be sure that he is not a terrorist anymore," senior Israeli official told Newsweek of Syria's Ahmad al-Sharaa.

Sinan Ülgen considers the reasons for, and implications of, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s decision to disband.

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine ...

Two recent developments present the new Syrian government with a critical opportunity to stabilize the country. First, US ...

After decades of insurgency, the PKK plans to disarm and disband. Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, ...