It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its arms and disband, but it is not clear when this process will begin and how ...

The KDP bloc demands urgent federal action to halt drone attacks on Kurdistan’s energy infrastructure, warning they threaten Iraq’s sovereignty and economy. They call for accountability, an emergency ...

Massoud Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party whose forces now control northern Kurdish region of Iraq, with help from Iraqi army, says he wants area to be castle of peace and democracy ...

PKK leader Öcalan backs peace efforts after DEM Party visit, praises symbolic disarmament. Turkish parliament forms 51-member ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday received a high-level Iranian delegation to discuss enhancing bilateral ties and cross-border cooperation. The visit comes as Iraq is set to ...

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could end a 40-year conflict that has killed some 40,000 people. As the process ...

Iraq’s parliament wrapped up a session Monday without addressing recent drone strikes on Kurdistan Region oil infrastructure, ...

"Maybe this will be the next fall in the domino effect of this regime," a former Israeli intelligence officer told Newsweek.

The democratic autonomy movement in North Kurdistan is part of the wider movements for 'democratic confederalism' in Kurdistan. In the writing of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the ...

Despite the risks from security forces, thousands across Iraqi Kurdistan continue to protest widespread corruption and the fact that the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of ...

Breaking taboos is not easy. The confusion of the Prosecutor’s Office of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals in deciding whether the word "Kurdistan" in a political party’s name is in compliance with ...

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