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

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 ...

President Barzani thanked France for honoring the Peshmerga in Paris and called for a new, just Iraqi election law to be ...

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, 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 ...

The United States’ closest fighting partners in Iraq don’t have enough weapons in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the commander in charge of a training center for the ...

NEAR MOSUL, Iraq -- For more than a year, the Iraqi military and its allies have been talking about and preparing for an operation to try and take back the country's second-largest city from ISIS. No ...

This article first appeared on The Daily Signal. Lt. Colonel Nahida Ahmad Rashid is a top-ranking female commander in the peshmerga, the army of the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.

ERBIL, IRAQ—When Kurdish peshmerga, Iraqi army, and U.S.-led coalition forces move to liberate nearby Mosul, possibly within two weeks, Islamic State fighters will not abandon their prized city and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...