After decades of insurgency, the PKK plans to disarm and disband. Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria.

After more than four decades of armed struggle, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced its intention to lay down arms. The move, declared unilaterally and without negotiations or concessions from Ankara,

The Kurdistan Workers Party, a militant organization that seeks an independent Kurdistan, announced it was disbanding, a move that is expected to have wide-ranging consequences throughout the region.