Opinion: The world’s response in Sinjar was not perfect, but it was decisive, and it saved thousands of lives. That is a ...

"The Iraqi judiciary has yet to take the necessary legal steps to prosecute perpetrators, secure accountability, and ensure ...

As Iraqi soldiers deserted, the peshmerga fighters rushed to take their place in the oil-rich region around Kirkuk, occupying ground they consider the heart of their ethnic homeland and over which ...

About 100,000 troops were active in the liberation of Mosul, including Iraqi Security Forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, paramilitary and Sunni fighters. About 500 are US service members, who ...

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters attend a class at a school in the northern Iraqi village of Bahra, east of the embattled city of Mosul and some three kilometers (two miles) from the closest Daesh ...

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are seen in Karez area, west of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 17, 2017.

Kurdish Peshmergas backed by U.S. air strikes launched a major operation to retake control of Iraq's largest dam in Mosul from Islamic State militants.

Father Bolous Sheikh Bedari sits among Kurdish Peshmerga fighters during the Kurdish revolution. The warmth highlights a moment of solidarity or mutual respect between Kurdish resistance fighters and ...

Khalil Naderi, spokesperson for the Kurdistan Freedom Party, or PAK, a separatist Iranian Kurdish group based in Iraq, poses for a portrait with PAK Peshmerga fighters from the so-called Kurdistan ...

Months of U.S.-led air strikes, backed up by the Shi'ite militias, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Iraqi soldiers have contained Islamic State and pushed them back from around Baghdad, the Kurdish ...

Shi'ite militias and peshmerga fighters have been key forces in Iraq's campaign to retake the third of the country seized by Islamic State in 2014 after army and police units collapsed, but they ...

Iraqi men unload humanitarian aid supplies provided by the US development agency USAID to displaced Iraqis who have fled clashes between Islamic State group jihadists and Peshmerga fighters, on ...