The sudden reason for the arrest of Lahur Talabany is not clear but it casts a potential shadow over the Patriotic Union of ...

US Congressman Scott Perry praises Kurdish partnership, says "We love the Kurdish people and the Peshmerga" in a Kurdistan24 ...

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 ...

The Kurdish peshmerga were said to be the fiercest, most tenacious fighting force in the Middle East. But recent defeats at the hands of Islamic State militants have shown that their prowess has ...

Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are only receiving a fraction of promised U.S. military support, a top Kurdish official warned on Monday.

The Peshmerga emerged from the Kurdish nationalist movement in the first half of the 20th century after the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires, and number about 200,000.

Two groups of Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq arrived in Turkey early Wednesday en route to help the Syrian Kurds defend the town of Kobani from ISIS militants. One group of about 150 ...

Peshmerga take aim at an IS position, Nov. 7, 2016. (J. Dettmer/VOA) Plumes of black and gray smoke poured from the skyline across the town, 30 kilometers from Mosul.

The Peshmerga stopped ISIS from spreading into Kurdish territory in Iraq, partnered with U.S. Special Operators to bring combat power to the Syrian Kurds fighting ISIS in the Syrian city of Kobane ...

FILE - Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand in a street against the backdrop of a defaced Islamic State flag in the town of Sinjar, northern Iraq, Nov. 16, 2015.

Iraqi peshmerga fighters headed for the Syrian town of Kobane on Tuesday to help fellow Kurds repel an Islamic State advance that has defied U.S.-led air strikes and become an important test of ...

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 ...