After decades of fighting an insurgency, the Kurdish group declared a cease-fire. Two days earlier, the P.K.K.’s imprisoned leader called on his fighters to lay down their arms.
Author: BEN HUBBARD
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Hezbollah Names Naim Qassem as Its New Leader
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