Washington may see the Kurds as a useful tool for confronting the Iranian regime, but such a strategy could create new ...

U.S. conflict grows, rumors that the U.S. have sought Kurdish support are met with a firm rebuke — as a senior Kurdistan Region leader tells NPR: the Kurds are not guns for hire.

and the northern Iraq-based Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known by the initials PKK, has been ongoing now for more than 45 years. Last month, founding PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan called for the group to ...

The Kurdish people are an ethnic minority group in the Middle East without an independent state.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate in neighboring countries. By Erika Solomon and Ben Hubbard A Kurdish ...

With the Iranian regime weakened by relentless American and Israeli missiles, Washington is eyeing a familiar U.S. ally in ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Kurdish group in Turkey. The group's founder has now called for followers to disarm and disband.

After more than four decades of conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers Party militant group has decided to dissolve itself, a news agency close to the group reported on Monday (May 12) ...

FILE - Lawmaker of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party Sirri Sureyya Onder speaks to the media after talks with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (AP ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.