In the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, revellers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government in Damascus and local Kurdish-led authorities ...

Photo: Julian Stratenschulte/Sven Hoppe/Zuma Press/Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, called last week for his party to ...

For more than four decades, the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish forces has defined life in northern Syria, with airstrikes, military operations, and political tensions shaping the daily reality ...

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Following the declaration of Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan on Feb. 27 for the party to lay down arms and disband, the Turkish political process is said to be entering a new phase.

Pinar Dinc is the principal investigator of the ECO-Syria project, which receives funding from the Strategic Research Area: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) at the Centre for ...

Talks to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports Postponed to Thursday After Financial Disputes By Ahmed Rasheed, Maha El Dahan and Nerijus Adomaitis BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talks to speed a resumption in ...

Kurdish migrants are to be warned not to attempt to cross the Channel to reach the UK in the Home Office’s latest social media campaign. The digital adverts warning Iraqi Kurds about the risks ...

The day after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing ally raised the prospect of a deal to end the four-decade Kurdish insurgency last year, a man and woman armed with assault rifles and ...

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Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...