(CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man displays a flag with the image of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Oecalan at the Kurdish Newroz celebration in Frankfurt.

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.

The Kurdish militant group, PKK, handed over its first weapons at a ceremony in Iraq, marking the start of a long and challenging process towards a lasting peace between Turkey and the Kurds. Kurdish ...

The Kurdish political scene in the Middle East is no longer synonymous solely with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); today, Kurdish presence in the region is distributed among diverse political ...