US steered Syrian Kurds towards Damascus deal, sources say
The deal would allow Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish ...
Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...
Iraqi Kurdistan faces a deepening economic crisis as unpaid wages pile up
Iraq’s semi-autonomous north is grappling with a severe economic crisis, with many residents forced into massive personal debt.
The Blogs | The Times of Israel5d
Netanyahu’s reshaped Middle East aligns neatly with Trump’s new world order
In 2023, Mr. Netanyahu outlined elements of his vision in an address to the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister held up a map that erased Palestine and showed the Golan Heights, ...
The Street Journal6d
Middle East: What an end of the PKK would mean for Kurds
Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...
The Economist8d
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declare a ceasefire
Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel13d
Israel joins Russia in laughing its way to the bank after Trump-Zelensky spat
Israel believes Russian military bases and Kurdish autonomy in northern Syria will weaken Turkish influence in Damascus on ...
Kurdish Insurgent Group Declares Cease-Fire in Conflict With Turkey
The group, the P.K.K., made its declaration days after its long-imprisoned leader urged the movement to disarm and disband, ...
CNN14d
Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the ...
Euronews14d
What does Öcalan's call for the PKK to lay down arms mean for Turkey and Syria?
In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers ... the move could redraw the map of alliances, especially if it ...
Yahoo15d
Kurdish PKK leader Öcalan calls on fighters to lay down arms
The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has urged his followers to lay down their arms in the decades-long fight against Turkey. Boris Roessler/dpa ...