For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...

Greetings from a sweltering Ankara.This week in Turkey was one of striking contrasts: While peace talks with Kurdish ...

In the past 18 months, huge geopolitical shifts and wars across the region have brought home the reality of conflict's ...

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq ...

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

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

A PKK fighter participates in a disarmament ceremony in Sulaimaniya, Iraq, on July 11, 2025. — Reuters On Friday, thirty ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants will hand over their weapons in a ...

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

The PKK militants ceremonially burned their weapons in Iraq, marking a symbolic move toward ending their insurgency against ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...

The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.