ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The US military said on Thursday that an Islamic State (ISIS) leader was arrested and two ...

A number of suspected Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists were arrested in a Kurdish counter-terrorism operation carried out near ...

With a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder and a curved dagger sheathed in his waist sash, peshmerga Col. Anwar Hassan watches his enemies through binoculars. Hassan, 48, has been a Kurdish ...

Outside peshmerga headquarters one sees an armored M998 Humvee and a Chevy truck with a heavy weapon mounted in the bed, both captured from ISIS. The Kurds will likely have occasion to reclaim ...

Kurdish peshmerga were trying to avoid improvised explosive devices and clear remaining jihadists, who kept popping up to attack them. "We have the town under control now," Lt. Col. Omar ...

The Kurds should continue to receive U.S. and Western support to shore up their security posture. This means investing in the Peshmerga, their armed forces, which played a crucial role in the ...

They are the female members of the Zeravani unit, a branch of the Kurdish peshmerga. The typically female attributes shouldn't detract from the fact that these women are prepared to defend their ...

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 ...

The peshmerga fighters from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish north sent to fight in Syria will cooperate closely with Kurdish groups there, a Kurdistan official said Thursday. Peshmerga, a term used ...

MOSUL, Iraq, Oct 22 (Reuters) - 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 ...