Set amid Kurdistan’s scenic landscapes, Soran offers over ten popular tourist spots, from snowy Balykayeti highlands to lush, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Human footprints dating back to the Stone Age have been discovered in the Soran district of Erbil ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), founded in 1978 by Abdullah Ocalan, spent decades waging an insurgency against the ...

Long-suppressed by the Assad regime, the Kurdish language underwent an educational and cultural revival in Syria over the ...

Turkish military to continue operations against PKK militants until threat is eliminated, despite group's dissolution announcement.

The PKK announced on May 12 that it was dissolving itself, bringing an end to its more than four-decade armed insurgency. The ...

Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister of the semi-autonomous region in Iraq and president of the new Kurdistan Film ...

Israel’s latest strike near Damascus sparks sharp Turkish condemnation, revealing a deeper regional power struggle over Syria ...

While the PKK’s announcement that it would heed Ocalan’s call and disarm was welcomed by SDF leader Mazloum Abdi, he said his ...

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups ...

On 12 May, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced its decision to abandon armed struggle and disband. In a statement, the organisation – designated as a terrorist group – announced that its ...