Peshmerga are proving to be much better fighters than the Iraqi army. I asked Rashid why this is so. "Although they have the best military equipment, the Iraqis are not a real army," she said.

Peshmerga scurried to confront unseen attackers, who they feared might unleash suicide blasts. In a house near where I was standing on a roof terrace, peshmerga chased a jihadist in a tunnel, ...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces are within five miles (eight kilometers) of Mosul, commanders said Sunday, after days of fighting and sweeping territorial gains in the operation to free the key Iraqi ...

Female Peshmerga fighters hold their weapons at a site during a deployment near the front line of the fight against Islamic State militants in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20.

Brig. Gen. Kevin Lambert assumed command of Operation Inherent Resolve during a Baghdad ceremony, succeeding Maj. Gen. Kevin ...

The Peshmerga held their own, despite Baghdad’s decision to push U.S. arms and equipment to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-backed Shia militias, but deny them to the Peshmerga. Advertisement ...

Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan. GWER, Iraq ...

Shortly after 2 p.m. local time Monday, the Iraqi Kurdish news agency Rudaw flashed on its website, "Bashiqa is liberated; Peshmerga in full control." That seemed wildly inaccurate. From where I ...

Interior Ministry last Friday pointed the finger at Iranian-backed militias in Iraq as the culprits behind the recent drone attacks.

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.

Many of our Peshmerga are needlessly dying from injuries of the sort that British soldiers have routinely survived for decades. Jump to content. US Edition Change.