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

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

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

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

PKK fighters to lay down arms in Iraqi Kurdistan after decades of conflict. Farming communities devastated by fighting hope ...

DAMASCUS - US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack on Thursday told Rudaw that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...

Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

More than 200 Kurds are currently being held in prisons across Afrin, northwestern Syria, due to their ethnicity and ...

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.

Kurds, often considered the world's largest stateless people, primarily inhabit territory spanning Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, with Iranian Kurds mostly present in the northwestern provinces of ...

The Kurds are among the few peoples in the region with whom America shares not only common interests but common values—and even fewer that can be counted on to be valorous when times are toughest.

A US envoy says Syria's central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging forces after latest talks.