PHUONG PHAM is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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

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

The jailed leader of the PKK called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, ...

While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish ...

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party has called on his group to disarm and disband in a bid to end 40 ...

Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal raised the prospect of an end to a conflict between Turkey and the PKK that since the 1980s has ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as ...

By Gul Tuysuz, Isil Sariyuce, Max Saltman and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or ...

Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and soon ... It was home to Tadmur prison, where thousands of opponents of the Assad family's rule in Syria were reportedly tortured.