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.

SURUC, Turkey -- Ten Iraqi peshmerga fighters entered a northern Syrian border town, crossing over from Turkey on Thursday, the first from among a group of 150 Kurdish troops on their way into the ...

As the Kurds prepare to help take back Mosul from ISIS, their commanders await political negotiations with Iraqi leaders they do not trust for a future they cannot predict.

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 ...

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Thursday visited with peshmerga in northern Iraq, praising their performance in retaking Sinjar and other territory from ISIS.

A member of Kurdish peshmerga forces holds a rifle during a training session at a training camp on the outskirts of Dohuk province April 7. Last week Kurdish forces successfully raided an ISIS ...

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 ...

The Coalition, ISF and Peshmerga Forces also discussed means to communicate more effectively to counter the Daesh misinformation and propaganda. The group discussed plans to establish a Joint Media ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Kurdish fighters from Iraq soon will enter the besieged Syrian border city of Kobani to reinforce militia there defending against ISIS, an official says.