In a significant move to honor the Kurdish Peshmerga's role in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS), the city of Paris ...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces carried out an operation against suspected Islamic State (ISIS) hideouts in Diyala province and ...

President Barzani warned of ongoing ideological warfare targeting Kurdish youth, calling it “more dangerous than tanks, ...

The secular Peshmerga, whose name means “those who face death”, sprang into action as they had done in 2003’s US-led liberation of Iraq and other campaigns. “For over 100 years ...

Telskuf is now deserted. Only peshmerga and a few Christian militia members occupy its homes. It resembles a city from a post-apocalyptic film. Most of Telskuf’s residents are now in al-Qosh to ...

In an apparent attempt to take revenge on supporters of Islamic State (IS), Peshmerga forces from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have bulldozed, blown up ...

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IRAQ: Kurdish peshmerga forces announced yesterday that they had retaken a string of villages east of the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (Isis). Brigadier General Dedewan Khurshid Tofiq ...

But the region excluded the city of Kirkuk, "the Kurdish Jerusalem," and Barzani's peshmerga guerrillas took up arms once again. The response of Saddam's government was brutal: Hundreds of ...