The sudden reason for the arrest of Lahur Talabany is not clear but it casts a potential shadow over the Patriotic Union of ...

Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party militants began handing over weapons in a ceremony in a cave in northern Iraq officials said.

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking the ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking the ...

The conflict here began in 1984, when the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, took up arms against the Turkish state, first for independence, later for more autonomy for Kurds.

The defence ministry of Turkey said on Monday that a dozen Turkish soldiers died of methane gas poisoning while searching a cave in northern Iraq for remains of a fellow soldier killed by Kurdish ...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...

The long conflict, in which P.K.K. militants bombed civilian areas and the Turkish military responded with great force, has led to pitched battles in Kurdish-majority cities.

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons.

A Simple and Useful Guide to Understanding the Conflict in Iraq Because you want to understand, but it can be really complicated.