The minister's remarks follow the PKK's March 1 announcement of a unilateral ceasefire after a call from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan. On Feb. 27, Ocalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999, ...

Turkey’s defense minister on Saturday demanded the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) surrender its weapons after the group said ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

It was a development in the Syrian drama almost as unexpected as the stunningly swift fall of the Assad regime that had ...

Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an agreement spearheaded by the war-torn country's new authorities to disband ...

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition ...

Syrian Democratic Forces Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi (left) and Syrian interim President Ahmed al Sharaa shake hands after signing an integration ...

The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous ...

Tensions had been building between the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the new central Syrian government before the ...

Lots of clouds, but some silver linings and even rays of sun are on the horizon as we take stock of developments across the region in our selection of Premium stories this week.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands of women took to the streets of Turkish cities Saturday to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and violence against women.

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...