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.
Syrian Government Signs Breakthrough Deal With Kurdish-Led Forces
The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip ...
Stars and Stripes4d
Syria’s government signs a breakthrough deal with Kurdish-led authorities in the northeast
JABLEH, Syria — Syria’s interim government signed a deal Monday with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s ...
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 ...
FIRSTonline13d
Türkiye, Ocalan's PKK declares ceasefire: a window of peace after 40 years of conflict
Historic announcement by the paramilitary group fighting for Kurdish rights, which is laying down its weapons after an appeal ...
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 ...
SooToday14d
Kurdish militants declare a ceasefire in a 40-year insurgency in Turkey
Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and ...
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PKK founder calls on followers to disarm in conflict with Turkey
ARRAF: "All groups must lay down their arms and the PKK dissolve itself." That was the message from Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the militant PKK - the Kurdistan Workers' Party - in 1978, to fight for ...
Foreign Policy14d
Rwanda’s Attack on Congo Could Plunge Africa Into War
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