Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

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

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency against the government in neighboring Turkey GUHARZE, Iraq -- Iraqi Kurdish ...

“It seems they both reached to this conviction now.” Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is the ...

GUHARZE, Iraq — Iraqi Kurdish villagers ... was abandoned — about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away, south of the mountain. He used to go back to the old village every now and then to farm ...

The PKK launched its insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984 and is now based in the mountains of northern Iraq. It is designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and ...

But the PKK, mostly based in the mountains of northern Iraq, has yet to respond, and its members have not seen their leader for decades except for a few photos from his jail cell. The Kurds ...

He now lives in a newly built village - also named Barchi, after the old one that was abandoned - about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away, south of the mountain. PHOTOS: Iraq's displaced Kurds hope to ...