Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire. By Ben Hubbard and ...

(CNN) — Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long ...

QAMISHLI, Syria March 9 (Reuters) - The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said on Sunday the country's interim president must hold the perpetrators of communal violence in Syria's coastal ...

seeks to overcome the deep-rooted religious and ethnic divisions that have historically kept these Kurdish communities apart. Click here for the full story in Kurdish.

Kurdish-led group rejects declaration Says it represents new form of authoritarianism UN envoy calls for inclusive transitional government Envoy also wants investigation into sectarian violence ...

Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast. But in recent years the group has called for more autonomy within ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

Syria's interim government says Kurdish forces in the country's northeast have agreed to come under government control. The government says the agreement came in talks Monday between interim ...