Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began laying down their weapons on Friday at a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq to mark the end of their decades-long armed struggle against the ...

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

Abdullah Ocalan, pictured on the flag, founded the PKK in the late 1970s with the Kurdish militant group taking up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 - Copyright ...

On Friday, 30 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) threw their weapons into a bonfire at a meeting in Sulaimaniyah, a city in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. After hiding ...

QANDIL, Iraq (AP) — A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take ...