U.S. and Peshmerga troops lived side-by-side with each other on the same base, in some cases. "They're not hard to work with," said Staff Sgt. Kimberly Chavez, 3rd SFAB logistics advisor.

In the history of funding the Iraqi Kurdish militias, investment has seldom met the promise. The Islamic State seized Jebel Sinjar and enslaved the Yezidis living there because the Peshmerga ...

The peshmerga of a generation ago were adept at mountain fighting and gave Saddam a run for his money. Two decades of corrosive politics, however, have undercut the peshmerga as political loyalty ...

Two Iraqi soldiers and two fighters of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces were killed on Sunday as the two sides clashed in a mountainous northern area, Iraqi and Kurdish security sources said.

The Peshmerga, on the other hand, still mostly has to make do with the tanks it captured in 2003. The Kurds have improvised and modified civilian vehicles for potential combat.

Lévy is interested not only in the troops he accompanies, whose bravery he extols in purple, redundant language, but also the history of the region (it stretches across northern Iraq), from the ...

Two groups of Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq arrived in Turkey early Wednesday en route to help the Syrian Kurds defend the town of Kobani from ISIS militants. One group of about 150 ...

The ISF and Peshmerga spokesmen expressed interest in similar goals and emphasized the importance of working together to defeat Daesh. “The relationship with the ISF and Coalition Forces is like that ...

SURUC, Turkey — A vanguard force of Iraqi peshmerga troops entered the embattled Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey on Thursday, part of a larger group of 150 fighters ...

The stipends of the 30,000 Peshmerga fighters haven’t been paid, while Iraq regularly pays the salaries, pensions and weapons of the Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces.

new video loaded: Training day for Peshmerga fighters. Although it is a mock scenario, the threat could not be more real as a British firm trains Kurdish fighters to defuse 'improvised explosive ...

But Peshmerga fighters from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan, tried to retake the positions on Sunday, triggering the clashes, the sources said.