With the recent victories of the Islamic State in Sinjar and other northern Iraqi towns, and the Islamist radicals’ efforts to cleanse their region of any non-Muslims, there is renewed debate about ...

Kurdistan Region and US officials met in Erbil to review progress on Peshmerga reform, reaffirming commitment to unification ahead of the 2026 integration deadline.

Five Kurdish “Peshmerga” fighters were killed, and four wounded, in an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on Friday, according to Iraq’s northeastern Kurdistan Regional Government. The attack, which took ...

They were established in 2013 and have since then been advocating for gender equality and a greater role for women in society ...

(BAGHDAD) — The fighters that ISIS fears the most wear lipstick, according to these troops. Some even let their long, braided hair fall out behind their hats. They are the female members of the ...

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.

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces briefly clashed Sunday in a dispute over control of a strategic military post, killing three, Iraq's military spokesperson said. The ...

Here's What You Need to Remember: Although ISIS was territorially defeated within Iraq in 2017, cells of the group’s adherents remain and have carried out ...

The recent crashes of two helicopters in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Duhok province as they flew Syrian Kurdish-led fighters to the autonomous region’s eastern Sulaimani province in mid-March raised many ...

The Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), constitute a highly effective and well-trained military organization that protects not only Kurdistan but also the whole of ...