The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

Baghdad: In recent months, Iraq has navigated two difficult challenges. It avoided being drawn into the Israeli-Iranian conflict and managed to stay clear of the fallout from US strikes on Iran’s ...

Baghdad: In recent months, Iraq has navigated two difficult challenges. It avoided being drawn into the Israeli-Iranian conflict and managed to stay clear of the fallout from US strikes on Iran’s ...

I once asked a man who had worked in Saddam Hussein’s palace whether he had ever heard him swear. “No, he did not have a habit of swearing. He would fall silent when he became angry, but sparks would ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), junior ally Nationalist Movement Party (AKP) and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party will from now on “walk together”, the ...

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...

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

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a ...

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

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By bnm Gulf bureau Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for developing relations with Syria's new authorities at ...

BEIRUT, May 30 (Reuters) - The commander of Kurdish forces that control northeast Syria said on Friday that his group is in direct contact with Turkey and that he would be open to improving ties ...