Over the past few weeks there have been a concerning pattern of attacks, though it is not clear who would have an agenda to ...

Iraqi forces advanced toward Qambar oil field, prompting Peshmerga in Garmiyan to go on full alert. Tensions rise over ...

Peshmerga general Khader Husayn explains that the peshmerga need both light and heavy equipment: M4s, armored Humvees, antitank weapons, mortars, and training. On a couch is an M16, captured from ...

The Peshmerga is a volunteer military force operated by the Kurdish regional government in Iraq. Not only are they a standing army, but they also assist civilians, similar to what the National ...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces ... The Kurdish-controlled area of Northern Iraq also has been forced to absorb a loss of more than $100 million a month in declining oil revenues and diminished support ...

Thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga troops are involved in an offensive to regain formerly Kurdish villages near the ISIS-held town of Mosul, Kurdish officials say. The Peshmerga-led ground offensive ...

A Kurdish peshmerga fighter searches a house for Islamic State militants in Tel Asqof, northern Iraq, May 4. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters. According to the peshmerga soldiers in Gwer, airstrike ...

Kurdish Peshmerga Needs More Equipment From the West. Published Nov 01, 2015 at 12:49 PM EST Updated May 10, 2017 at 7:16 PM EDT. By . Mirren is a reporter for Newsweek Europe, based in London.

The Kurdish peshmerga began as a guerrilla army rising up against a string of oppressive central governments. Kurdish leaders like Massoud Barzani (the president of Iraqi Kurdistan) and Jalal ...

Some 1,000 IS militants reportedly surrendered to Peshmerga forces, Kurdish security officials have reported, while Iraqi forces continued to liberate Hawija and the surrounding areas.

The Kurds should continue to receive U.S. and Western support to shore up their security posture. This means investing in the Peshmerga, their armed forces, which played a crucial role in ...

Thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga troops are involved in an offensive to regain formerly Kurdish villages near the ISIS-held town of Mosul, Kurdish officials say.