The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader ...

On February 27, an event took place, the consequences of which will affect not only Turkey and the Middle East, but also ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to position Turkey as an energy hub, connecting gas producers to its east and south ...

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged the ceasefire as a potential step toward peace, he has also warned that military operations against the PKK will resume if disarmament ...

DIYARBAKIR, (Turkey): Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that the outlawed ...

Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and ...

After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

The Iraqi Ministry of Oil invited oil companies operating in Iraqi Kurdistan to attend an important meeting in Baghdad on ...

Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in ...

As a partner in the "Our Media" project, IPS Communication Foundation/bianet has collaborated with organizations from Bosnia ...

A suspected Ukrainian drone strike triggered a massive blaze at one of Russia's largest oil refineries in Ufa in the southern ...