Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK, which has waged a 40-year insurgency against Turkey, has announced it is laying down its arms and disbanding. The move followed a call in February by the group's jailed ...

FOR much of the past century, as the Kurds dreamed of autonomy in Turkey and the Middle East, armed groups drove the agenda. Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the largest such group, the Kurdistan ...

A major Houston-area provider of group homes for people with disabilities is shutting down and laying off more than a hundred workers, a harbinger of what advocates say will become more frequent after ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters from the Kurdish separatist group PKK begin laying down weapons in Iraq as part of a peace process with Turkey. New Haven Public Schools will now have eight Arabic ...