The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged the ceasefire as a potential step toward peace, he has also ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to position Turkey as an energy hub, connecting gas producers to its east and south ...

Iraq and oil companies operating in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan failed to reach an agreement during a meeting on ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed Iraq’s Prime Minister to reopen the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline. The U.S. and its allies ...

A suspected Ukrainian drone strike triggered a massive blaze at one of Russia's largest oil refineries in Ufa in the southern ...

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After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

Tayyip Erdogan’s long-held goal of ending Turkey’s conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief’s peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

In Diyarbakir, residents express optimism over the PKK’s ceasefire decision, following the call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan for disarmament. This development could potentially end a 40-year ...

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