Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state institutions as it tries to unify the country’s diverse communities ...

Here's a primer on Syria's main Kurdish groups and their PKK ties. After the start of Syria's civil war in 2011, a Kurdish armed group - the People's Protection Units (YPG) - established control ...

U.S.A.I.D. Advertisement Supported by The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and integrate into a national military ...

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip Syria’s coastal region. By Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward Christina ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast. But in recent years the group has called for more autonomy within ...

(CNN) — Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long ...

A Kurdish militant group who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire today, two days after their jailed leader called for the group to disarm from his prison island.

On Thursday, a delegation of Kurdish politicians announced Ocalan’s call for the PKK to lay down its arms and disband after visiting him on his island prison. In its statement, the PKK’s ...