They are the female members of the Zeravani unit, a branch of the Kurdish peshmerga. The typically female attributes shouldn't detract from the fact that these women are prepared to defend their ...

With a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder and a curved dagger sheathed in his waist sash, peshmerga Col. Anwar Hassan watches his enemies through binoculars. Hassan, 48, has been a Kurdish ...

Kurdish peshmerga were trying to avoid improvised explosive devices and clear remaining jihadists, who kept popping up to attack them. "We have the town under control now," Lt. Col. Omar ...

Outside peshmerga headquarters one sees an armored M998 Humvee and a Chevy truck with a heavy weapon mounted in the bed, both captured from ISIS. The Kurds will likely have occasion to reclaim ...

Iraqi Kurds say they are determined to fight for the oil-rich province of Kirkuk at any cost and until the “very last Peshmerga fighter”. On Monday, Iraqi government forces launched a “major ...

The Kurdish Regional Government has set a positive example in the Middle East by embracing different faith communities and ...

The peshmerga fighters from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish north sent to fight in Syria will cooperate closely with Kurdish groups there, a Kurdistan official said Thursday. Peshmerga, a term used ...

the crashes were a reminder that Iraqi Kurdistan’s armed forces, the Peshmerga, lack the most basic airpower despite the U.S.-allied autonomous region facing various challenges and threats to ...