A senior U.S. defense official met with Peshmerga Lt. Gen. Sihad Barzani, reaffirming the security partnership and discussing ...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces – arguably the most effective ground troops battling the Islamic State terror group in Iraq – have been fighting for the past three ...

Last week the effectiveness of Kurdish operations conducted with U.S. support was exemplified by a raid on an ISIS prison in Hawija, near Kirkuk. Sixty-nine hostages were saved, with more than 20 ISIS ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Hundreds of Kurdish Peshmerga forces assigned to joint brigades with the Iraqi Army have been ...

The image of the braided Kurdish female fighter, donning military camouflage and taking up arms against the militant group ISIS, may have done more to promote the Kurdish cause in the West than ...

Audiences who saw Bernard-Henri Lévy’s 2012 “The Oath of Tobruk” may have gotten a fright upon hearing that his new documentary would make a last-minute entry as a special screening at the Cannes Film ...

NEAR NAWARAN, Iraq — Behind fortified hills on the outskirts of a town called Nawaran, just over 16 miles northeast of Mosul, hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish forces, known as the peshmerga, were encamped as ...

ERBIL, Iraq-- An ISIS commander blamed for the death of a U.S. Marine was killed Sunday by a drone strike in Iraq. The ISIS member was said to be behind the rocket attack that killed Staff Sergeant ...

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 ...

Kurdish fighters from Iraq will enter the besieged Syrian border city of Kobani soon to reinforce fellow Kurds who are defending against ISIS, a Peshmerga general told CNN on Tuesday. “The Peshmerga ...

ERBIL, Iraq -- In the Makmuhr mountains of northern Iraq where fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria are regrouping and reforming, the Kurdish Peshmerga operate a small military base close ...

Last week the effectiveness of Kurdish operations conducted with U.S. support was exemplified by a raid on an ISIS prison in Hawija, near Kirkuk. Sixty-nine hostages were saved, with more than 20 ISIS ...