Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire. By Ben Hubbard and ...

ISTANBUL — Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkiye following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband. It was the first reaction from ...

In an interview with Reuters, he said non-Syrian Kurdish fighters would leave the country if a total ceasefire was reached in the conflict with Turkey. The PKK is designated a terrorist ...

Ocalan's capture in exile on February 15, 1999, shocked his supporters A mural in northern Syria showing Kurdish fighters with a flag bearing Ocalan's face For many Kurds, Ocalan is a hero whom ...

The SDF includes Arabs, Christians, and other groups, but its main component is Kurdish fighters. These fighters defeated ISIS in most of Syria in 2019, after years of tough fighting. However ...

Turkey's wide-scale use of combat drones has pushed most Kurdish fighters into northern Syria and Iraq, where Ankara has continued its raids.

In Syria, Kurdish fighters — who have ties to the PKK — have been involved in intense fighting with Turkish-backed forces on the ground there. The Turkish government, however, says all Kurdish ...

Istanbul (AFP) – Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. In a ...