Federal financial transfer signals political will to implement an agreement that could result in re-starting northern oil ...

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish movement.

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with ...

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party says destroying arms ‘a historic, democratic move’ Analysts say the PKK’s military weakness makes disarmament a face-saving move, while allowing Turkish President ...

Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party, based in Iranian/Eastern Kurdistan, also known ...

The Barzanis are the most influential Kurdish tribe in Northern Iraq and form the backbone of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) – the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Talabanis are another ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is hosting a meeting of several Kurdish political parties on Saturday as tensions escalate with Baghdad over salaries and energy ...

For the first time in decades, major Kurdish political factions—including the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Iraq, as well as the Democratic Union ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its founder Abdullah Öcalan have played a key role in shaping the resistance of the Kurdish people since the 1970s.

The other party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP, is closer to Turkey and has allowed the Turkish military to build more than 100 military outposts in Iraqi Kurdistan.