Local officials confirmed to VOA on Thursday that a mass grave containing the remains of 17 people has been found in Hawija ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Saturday asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United ...

Families of Peshmerga who disappeared a decade ago are hoping that they may finally get some closure after Iraqi forensic ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic importance of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.

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 ...

"Our leaders are consistently martyred, roads are rigged with explosives, and our Peshmerga are targeted and killed." He emphasized the harm caused to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR), noting that ...

A security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment said the PKK has previously targeted military points of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi ...

Baghdad deploys federal guards along its border with Turkey in coordination with the government of the autonomous Kurdistan region and its forces, the peshmerga. The Iraqi federal authorities in ...