While the PKK declared disbandment amid Öcalan’s call, deep rifts and contradicting statements shadow peace hopes ...

In doing so, he said, he has allied with PDKI, though he rejected the continued practice of attacking Iranian personnel as carried out by PJAK, which was most recently tied to the killing of an ...

Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration following the dissolution of the PKK will be a process with no recent ...

When Abdullah Ocalan said his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should lay down its arms and disband after more than four ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an Iran-based armed group widely believed to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), on Monday said it will continue its armed ...

The groups are the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), Komala, the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), and the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). They were based in the Kurdistan Region close ...

Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), a PKK offshoot founded in 2004, has been actively involved in operations against Iranian security forces over the past two decades. It has fought Iranian ...

One example is the Kurdistan Free Life Party, or PJAK, in Iran, which says its goal is to declare an autonomous Kurdish region in Iran. “It’s unclear what will happen with the … PJAK because ...

In Iran, while the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), the PKK's Iranian affiliate, is not seen as a direct threat to Turkey, its eventual dismantling is considered important for regional stability.