Kurdish party leader Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday urged fighters to lay down their arms and to dissolve the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group that he founded. Here are five key dates in the history of Ocalan and the PKK, which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state...

Israel released about 600 prisoners overnight, including the longest-serving prisoner and a man convicted of killing an American peace activist, in the latest exchange for Israeli hostages held by Hamas. They were supposed to have been released last weekend after Hamas freed six living hostages....

Palestinians released from Israel's Ofer Prison arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Thursday.​​​​​​​ An Anadolu correspondent said a bus carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners accompanied by teams from the International Red Cross arrived at the Cultural...

The Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, Kelly Clements, confirmed that the situation in Syria presents opportunities, but it also faces challenges, as refugees continue to return from neighboring countries, but they are also internally displaced within Syria. This came in a special...