A 29-year-old man from Duhok has been missing for nine months after joining the Russian army and fighting on the front lines of the Russia–Ukraine war, his family said. The Kurdistan post

Kurdish families have gradually begun returning to Hasaka in northeast Syria following the extension of a fragile, US-brokered ceasefire that temporarily halted a Syrian-led military campaign against Kurdish-held areas. Despite the reduced threat of immediate fighting, residents say uncertainty remains.

A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) visited jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on Friday, amid growing hopes of giving the ongoing peace talks between Ankara and the group a formal legal framework. Ankara-PKK peace mediators meet Ocalan in jail

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), now operating under the name Kurdistan Freedom Movement, announced on Monday that it has relocated its fighters from a mountainous area along the Kurdistan Region–Turkey border to deeper zones within the Region. The group said the move aims to prevent clashes with the Turkish military and to safeguard the developing peace process with Ankara.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Senior figures in Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party say the release of jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas may occur within days, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a final decision ordering his immediate release.