“When ISIS is weak, they will just attack the Iraqi military in places like Anbar” to capture more weapons and ammunition, the general explains. Outside peshmerga headquarters one sees an ...

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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 ...

The establishment of the joint patrols by Kurdish militias (known as "Peshmerga") and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) achieved in the final days of the U.S. military presence in Iraq has greatly ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Some members of an all-Yazidi brigade of Peshmerga forces announced on Saturday that they had "resigned" from their brigade and announced their plan to join the Iraqi army.

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The assassination is certainly an important development and illustrates how important the US support for Iraq and the war on ...

A Kurdish peshmerga commander has raised concerns about the security gaps between peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army, especially in areas that were once controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq ...

"We are working with the Kurdistan Regional Government to integrate the Peshmerga Forces under the command and control of the ...

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

Dimokrat volunteered with the Peshmerga, the armed forces of Iraq's Kurdish region, as the extremist group rapidly gained territory throughout the country and Syria. He survived the war to ...