By Ako Rasheed SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants began handing over weapons in a ceremony in a ...

The toppling of Ankara’s archenemy Bashar al-Assad in Syria may have increased Turkey’s regional influence but it also represents a strategic challenge for Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Here’s a look at the different forces vying for control in Syria after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad.

During one of the crises between the two countries in 1989, Turkey grew frustrated with Hafez al-Assad’s support for Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...

Syrian rebels—long thought to have lost their fight against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime—shocked the world on December 1 after overrunning Syria’s second city, Aleppo, amid a ...

Nearly a million Syrians in Germany alone have made new lives. But after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, some politicians across the continent have suggested that refugees could return home.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed in just 13 days of rebel offensive after 24 years of rule, leaving a political vacuum in its capital Damascus.

The British-born wife of Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad has reportedly filed for divorce just weeks after the pair fled to Moscow.

The presence of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in Syria remains central to Turkiye’s security strategy as it considers the two ...

Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...