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 ...

Hannah said the Kurds “have a lot of issues,” including a bloated government that was built on the expectation of a $100 per barrel of oil. The KRG has also taken on almost two million ...

The Peshmerga is a volunteer military force operated by the Kurdish regional government in Iraq. Not only are they a standing army, but they also assist civilians, similar to what the National ...

The Kurdish Peshmerga, a ragtag army of ill-equipped yet battled-hardened warriors, has emerged as the key to checking ISIS, and controlling the critical Mosul Dam.

For nearly two years, Iraq's Kurdish fighters have led the battle against ISIS. Known as the peshmerga -- which means "one who faces death" -- these Kurdish soldiers have helped claw back towns ...

The Kurdish activists in Kobani said there was no sign of any peshmerga forces. Still, it was unprecedented for Turkey to promise to give Kurds passage to fight in Syria.

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter holds a a rocket-propelled grenade launcher as he takes up position in an area overlooking Baretle village (seen in the background), which is controlled by ISIS, in ...

Rebel peshmerga founded the leading Kurdish political parties, but decades later those leaders or those close to them have yet to give up power. In this environment, it is hard to dissent.

Thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga troops are involved in an offensive to regain formerly Kurdish villages near the ISIS-held town of Mosul, Kurdish officials say.

Kurdish peshmerga fighters who have proved the most effective force against the Islamic State have not been paid for the past three months and badly need winter gear and ammunition if they are to ...

The coalition Train and Equip program is preparing three Kurdish brigades for action. Weapon systems donated by the coalition, such as the German MILAN rocket, have saved hundreds of peshmerga.