BAGHDAD, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi parliament voted on Monday in favor of a bill to formally recognize Halabja as the country's 19th province.

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday for European companies to suspend planned investment in the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping ...

The new authorities have, however, made progress in relations with Kurdish-led forces, which control much of the country’s northeast. Turkish-backed former insurgent groups allied with the new ...

Cihan Sincar is hopeful that Turkey’s efforts to resolve a decades-old Kurdish insurgency would result in the peace her lawmaker husband desired before his death - one of hundreds of political ...

Victims of Turkey's Kurdish Militant Conflict Long for Peace By Daren Butler KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) - Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency ...

In Turkey's Kurdish Heartland, Distrust Erodes Peace Process Hopes By Daren Butler DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what ...

The pro-Kurdish DEM Party, parliament's third largest, is now demanding that democratisation steps follow. The PKK heeded the call, declaring an immediate ceasefire. The group added it wanted ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants are stoking ...

The Kurdish-led administration in northwestern Syria on Sunday rejected the legitimacy of the new national government formed by the coalition that toppled longtime autocrat Bashar al-Assad in ...

Although the Islamic State group was largely defeated in Syria in 2019, its sleeper cells are still active. They have claimed responsibility for multiple attacks, mainly in the northeast, which is ...

Ozel called for the immediate release of Imamoglu, as well as for other political prisoners including Selahattin Demirtas, a former presidential candidate and founder of the pro-Kurdish Peoples ...

The new government will build a strong and outward-looking Kurdistan. Above all, it will dedicate itself to serving the people of this region. Digital Transformation Technology is the key to unlocking ...