Peshmerga unification seeks stability, overcoming party disputes to build a national force in Iraq’s Kurdish landscape.

Sirwan Barzani says Kurdistan Region faced more than 1,000 missile and drone attacks, while Peshmerga salaries remain below half those of Iraqi Army personnel ...

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is working to secure federal funding for Peshmerga salaries, aiming to establish ...

Four Peshmerga fighters were injured after lightning struck a military base on the Khazir front on Sunday. They are receiving ...

The Kurdistan Regional Government’s minister of Peshmerga affairs praised the role of the U.S.-led coalition in supporting ...

If the moral implications of abandoning our allies and leaving them to their fate do not move you, then consider the dire ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last week the effectiveness of Kurdish operations conducted with U.S.