Friday, 11 July, 2025 , 03:26 AFP — PKK fighters were to begin laying down their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.
Thursday, 10 July, 2025 , 15:18 AFP — Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will start laying down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, two months after the militant group ended its armed struggle against the Turkish state.
Thursday, 10 July, 2025 , 15:04 AFP — Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society.
Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 , 20:03 AFP — Syria reiterated its rejection of federalism on Wednesday following a meeting with a Kurdish military official, calling on Kurdish forces to join the ranks of government forces.
Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 , 15:46 AFP — The disarmament of the Kurdish militant group PKK will happen quickly but establishing a Turkish political framework to ensure the switch to democratic politics will be crucial to its success, its jailed founder said Wednesday.
Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 , 10:47 AFP — A Kurdish military commander met with Syria's leader in Damascus on Wednesday in the presence of a US envoy to discuss stalled efforts to integrate the country's autonomous Kurdish administration into the Syrian state.
Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 , 08:41 AFP — More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with plans to extend full coverage by the end of 2026.
Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 , 08:12 AFP — The Kurdish militant PKK group's disarmament process will happen quickly but establishing a Turkish political framework to ensure the switch to democratic politics will be crucial, its jailed founder said Wednesday.
Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 , 07:14 AFP — Both the disarmament of Kurdish PKK militants and the creation of a Turkish parliamentary committee to oversee the peace process will be "crucial", the group's jailed founder said Wednesday.
Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 , 06:57 AFP — The process of PKK militants disarming will happen quickly, the group's founder Abdullah Ocalan who is jailed in Turkey, said two days before a first ceremony to lay down weapons.
