Efforts to broker peace between Turkey and the Kurdish militant group PKK have had a "positive impact" on Syria's Kurds who ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior official from the northeastern Syrian administration, known as Rojava, said on Thursday that they had not received any written letter from Abdullah Ocalan, the ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - All Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, including U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces, must lay down their weapons after the peace call from the jailed leader of the outlawed ...

Ocalan also cautioned that without genuine democratization, Syria risks sliding into authoritarianism under its new president, Ahmed Sharaa.

HASAKEH, Syria (Reuters) -Syrian Kurdish parties will send a delegation to Damascus soon for talks over their region's political future, a leading Kurdish politician said, as they seek to advance ...

After decades of insurgency, the PKK plans to disarm and disband. Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria. For forty years, ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday said non-Syrian members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) should leave ...

The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. For decades, the Turkish army has operated ...

In a quiet but historic turn, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party announced its official dissolution during its 12th Congress in May 2025. After more than four decades of armed conflict with the Turkish ...

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling ...

Former president Bashar Al Assad was toppled by rebels last December. Syrians were marking the anniversary of his fall across ...