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The Kurdistan Region President reaffirmed the regional government's commitment to maintaining the Peshmerga as an independent ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish Peshmerga forces must be a national entity free from political disputes and the influence ...

The secular Peshmerga, whose name means “those who face death”, sprang into action as they had done in 2003’s US-led liberation of Iraq and other campaigns. “For over 100 years ...

Only peshmerga and a few Christian militia members ... the last civilian residents of Telskuf to depart — three elderly women who had stubbornly remained in their homes. Inside an abandoned ...

The Ezidikhan Protection Forces are a Yazidi division within the Peshmerga ministry. “A civilian woman was injured in the attack,” Shasho said. “The bombardments continued every half hour ...