Here's a primer on Syria's main Kurdish groups and their PKK ties. After the start of Syria's civil war in 2011, a Kurdish armed group - the People's Protection Units (YPG) - established control ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state institutions as it tries to unify the country’s diverse communities ...

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.

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip Syria’s coastal region. By Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward Christina ...

A Kurdish militant group who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire today, two days after their jailed leader called for the group to disarm from his prison island.

ISTANBUL — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has ...

Initial talks with oil companies ended without agreement on key issues Iraq under U.S. pressure to resume Kurdish oil exports Kurdish oil contracts face legal challenges from Iraqi government ...