"We are working with the Kurdistan Regional Government to integrate the Peshmerga Forces under the command and control of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs to build a professional, unified fighting ...

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 and ...

“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 ...

In 2014, KRG found itself on the geographical frontline in the global battle against ISIS. The secular Peshmerga, whose name means “those who face death”, sprang into action as they had done ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish Peshmerga unit on Wednesday thwarted a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) attack on three shepherds in rural Sulaimani province. A Peshmerga ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Some members of an all-Yazidi brigade of Peshmerga forces announced on Saturday that they had ...

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 ...