About 30 Kurdish PKK fighters have symbolically laid down arms in Iraqi Kurdistan, marking the start of a historic disarmament.

A group of Kurdish militants has begun laying down its weapons after promising to disarm in a peace process designed to end the four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.

The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.

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The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

The Kurdish militant group PKK will begin laying down its arms on Friday, marking the start of a disarmament process aimed at ending one of the Middle East’s longest-running insurgencies.