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“For over 100 years, the Peshmerga have been fighting for stability and democracy,” explains Sirwan Saber Mustafa, chairman of Korek Telecom and a Peshmerga general. Nearly 2,000 KRG soldiers ...

ISIS regards the Kurds, not the Iraqi army, as the more formidable enemy. The peshmerga repeatedly express gratitude to America for the air support, without which they could not have stabilized ...

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Relations have also suffered because of the United States’ close relationship with Kurdish groups—the United States continues to supply arms to Peshmerga troops fighting the Islamic State in ...

Meanwhile, thousands of peshmerga and other security personnel have been assigned as guards for officials, influential figures and private individuals. Click here for the full story in Kurdish ...

Naqshbandi further clarified that Peshmerga forces joining the Iraqi army without the official approval of Erbil is illegal and that such a move is illegal. According to the military laws in the ...

Despite continuous counterterrorism efforts, the group's ability to exploit security gaps remains a pressing concern.

IRAQ: Kurdish peshmerga forces announced yesterday that they had retaken a string of villages ... You can’t buy a revolution, but you can help the only daily paper in Britain that’s fighting for one ...