In preparation for confronting Kurdish parties, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has, for more than two months, been working to increase the number of its loyal “Muslim Peshmerga” ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peshmerga soldiers wait and watch behind fortified position while explosion goes off down the road. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last week the effectiveness of Kurdish operations conducted with U.S. support was exemplified by a raid on an ISIS prison ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an interview with Samira Ali Mandee of RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq, General Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the Peshmerga Ministry of Iraq's Kurdish region, discusses the ongoing fight against ...