The Japanese parent company of convenience store chain 7-Eleven is reportedly preparing for its current president, Ryuichi ...

As a partner in the "Our Media" project, IPS Communication Foundation/bianet has collaborated with organizations from Bosnia ...

After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

After a 40-year conflict with Turkey that has killed 40,000 people, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, declared ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's ...

In Diyarbakir, residents express optimism over the PKK’s ceasefire decision, following the call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan for disarmament. This development could potentially end a 40-year ...

Turkey wants an Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline to operate at maximum capacity once it resumes flows through Turkey's Ceyhan, ...

Iraqs Ministry of Oil has invited foreign companies operating under the Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

The militants’ ceasefire announcement could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.