An offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Tuesday said the group cannot lay down arms or dissolve unless political and legal reforms are made.

Kurdish and Azeri human rights groups on Tuesday condemned the tensions that flared between ethnic groups in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province after anti-Kurdish slogans were chanted during a religious gathering.

Kurdish security forces (Asayish) in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Tuesday that they seized over 2.7 million Captagon pills in Qamishli.