Peshmerga soldiers wait and watch behind fortified position while explosion goes off down the road. NEAR NAWARAN, Iraq — Behind fortified hills on the outskirts of a town called Nawaran, just ...

The Kurdish Peshmerga, a ragtag army of ill-equipped yet battled-hardened warriors, has emerged as the key to checking ISIS, and controlling the critical Mosul Dam.

Along with his Peshmerga work, he said he often finds work in home construction when he’s back from the fighting - if the work is available. "There are not a lot of jobs," he said.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq may well be the most dedicated and combat-worthy units confronting Islamic State in Iraq, but they are also the most poorly armed.

Nearly 1,400 peshmerga have lost their lives in a war they're fighting without enough body armor or helmets to go around -- with very few heavy weapons and against an enemy that uses suicide bombs ...

One peshmerga soldier turns up the volume on his radio when he hears ISIS fighters talking to one another. The Kurds don't have encrypted communications; they share the airwaves with their enemy ...

The peshmerga general wears a traditional Kurdish outfit with a thick waist sash over which is a belt laden with ammunition pouches and a holstered pistol.

‘The Peshmerga Isn’t Afraid of ISIS’ Fighting on the front lines, Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers have joined the Iraqi Army in a bloody battle against the Islamic State.

My first deployment to Iraq was as an embedded adviser to a reflagged Kurdish Peshmerga battalion in Mosul in 2005. The 3rd Battalion of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Iraqi Army Division was a ...

ISIS has released a new propaganda video showing what appears to be Kurdish Peshmerga fighters paraded down Iraqi streets in cages.

To continue to succeed on the battlefield, the peshmerga need everything: from basic tactical gear like helmets, night vision binoculars and trauma medical packs to heavy assault equipment like ...