Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pro-Kurd protesters hold flags with portraits of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan. February 16, 2019. (photo credit: REUTERS/VINCENT KESSLER) The decision by ...

Turkey's intelligence agency, MIT, warned Iran's Revolutionary Guard about Kurdish fighters trying to cross the Iran-Iraq border during ongoing government crackdowns.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on Sunday expressed deep concern over escalating tensions between Kurdish forces and state-affiliated forces in Syria, warning that they could jeopardize ongoing peace talks between his party and the

Turkey, which deems Kurdish militants in northern Iraq terrorists, has warned in recent days that any foreign intervention in Iran would escalate regional crises. Armed Kurdish separatist groups sought to cross the border into Iran from Iraq,

Talk of restarting KRI exports via Ceyhan is premature—Turkey hasn’t agreed and the Kirkuk–Ceyhan line remains shut since Mar 25, 2023. Any restart hinges on a Turkey–Baghdad deal, not the KRG. Post-2017 referendum fears of Kurdish independence ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC), an umbrella group of Kurdish opposition parties in northeast Syria (Rojava), on Sunday welcomed a decree issued by Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa allegedly to guarantee certain Kurdish rights,

Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa “affirmed that the injustices witnessed in Syria during the decades of the deposed regime’s rule affected all segments of the Syrian population without exception.”

QANDIL, Iraq — A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in northern Iraq by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK ...