Iraqi Kurdistan region has witnessed one of the most unprecedented clashes between the militants of the Kurdistan Democratic ...

1 / 8 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Duehning, 3rd Security Forces Assistance Brigade (SFAB) team leader, stands guard outside the Peshmerga 3rd Battalion, 14th ...

Female Syrian Peshmerga fighters are being trained to fight against Daesh and Assad forces at a camp located in Old Mosul region of the city of Nineveh, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2015. Hamit Huseyin/Anadolu ...

But Peshmerga fighters from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan, tried to retake the positions on Sunday, triggering the clashes, the sources said.

The peshmerga of a generation ago were adept at mountain fighting and gave Saddam a run for his money. Two decades of corrosive politics, however, have undercut the peshmerga as political loyalty ...

As US forces prepare to end their combat mission in Iraq, Peshmerga Maj. Gen. Sirwan Barzani writes that America shouldn’t abandon its Kurdish allies – or give up its active role in the fight ...

Peshmerga soldiers pull security after clearing an objective during their final training exercise at Bnaslawa Training Center in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Dec. 18, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Spc.

Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have recaptured a village in northern Iraq on Monday after Islamic State militants took it over the previous day, security and police sources said.

If Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militias continue targeting Iraqi Kurdistan and its Peshmerga forces, remnants of the Islamic State (ISIS) will ultimately be the ones who stand to benefit. On March 29 ...

Along the old Sector 6 front, around Gwer, on a daily basis, ISIS tests the capacity of Gen. Sirwan Barzani, a leader of the Peshmerga, the regional military force.