The Kurdish insurgent group PKK in Turkey says it will lay down its arms and disband after a decades-long fight that killed ...

While the PKK’s announcement that it would heed Ocalan’s call and disarm was welcomed by SDF leader Mazloum Abdi, he said his ...

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the four decades since Kurdish separatist group the PKK took up arms against ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated ...

The Syrian army reclaimed two military posts from the PKK/YPG terrorist group, which briefly gained control before being forced to flee following a gunfight near the Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates ...

The core of the SDF is the so-called People's Defense Units, or YPG. Turkey considers the YPG an offshoot of the PKK. There is speculation that the SDF fighters could be integrated into Syria's new ...

The disarmament of the PKK could also help clear up a thorny issue between the U.S. and its NATO ally. Turkey has long been critical of U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish group YPG, which Turkey ...

Yet Iraq and Turkey had agreed to boost anti-PKK cooperation, and Baghdad labelled it a banned organisation for the first time. Turkey also targets the YPG militia in Syria, regarding it as a PKK ...

The PKK/YPG terror group shot and killed an elderly civilian in Syria's northeastern province of al-Hasakah, local sources said on Monday. PKK/YPG terrorists opened ...

Turkey says the YPG is a terrorist organisation, closely tied to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group. Turkey's Western allies list the PKK as terrorist group, but not the YPG.

The Turkish invasion in Iraq is accompanied by operations against the US-backed People’s Defense Units (YPG) militias, the PKK’s allies in Syria. The Turkish Defence Ministry claimed its ...