The Kurdistan Regional Government’s minister of Peshmerga affairs praised the role of the U.S.-led coalition in supporting the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, saying the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq ...

Families of seven Peshmerga killed in the 2017 Battle of Pirde marked its ninth anniversary by calling on Kurdish political ...

On August 3, 2014, Daesh attacked Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq. In just one day thousands of Yazidis were killed or abducted; tens of thousands were forced to flee. As reported by the International ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peshmerga soldiers wait and watch behind fortified position while explosion goes off down the road. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for ...

He simply goes by "Mike." As a Kurdish refugee from Iraq in the 1980s, his family luckily made their way into Norway to escape the horrors inflicted by Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime. After growing ...

The adult son of the peshmerga commander nearly collapsed when they told him his 55-year-old father had been killed by a jihadist suicide bomber in the northern Iraq town of Bashiqa. The bomber had ...

Jacob Russell's intimate photo essay follows Kurdish female fighters He says the images of these Peshmerga have an important social, political role The image of the braided Kurdish female fighter, ...

ERBIL, IRAQ—When Kurdish peshmerga, Iraqi army, and U.S.-led coalition forces move to liberate nearby Mosul, possibly within two weeks, Islamic State fighters will not abandon their prized city and ...