Illegal cigarette smuggling has become a significant contributor to funding terrorism and organized crime, both in the ...

Authorities and security experts noted the link between illicit cigarette smuggling and the funding of terrorism and ...

The Israeli security cabinet recommended the approval to the ceasefire deal in Gaza, although strikes have continue to kill ...

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet ...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of ...

The talks are part of efforts to initiate a peace process between the state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) delegation, consisting ...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, deputies of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), met on December 28 with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party ...

The aim was to brief them on a rare weekend meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) who is serving life without parole on Imrali prison island near ...

Turkey accuses the main component of the SDF, the People's Protection Units (YPG), of being affiliated with the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which both Washington and Ankara blacklist ...

ADDS quotes after meetings end A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition DEM party met Thursday with the parliamentary speaker and far-right MHP leader amid tentative efforts to resume ...