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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kurdish Peshmerga female fighters march during a training camp conducted by trainers from the German military forces in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, Oct ...

The Kurdish activists in Kobani said there was no sign of any peshmerga forces. Still, it was unprecedented for Turkey to promise to give Kurds passage to fight in Syria.

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 ...