MULLAH ABDULLAH Iraq (Reuters) - Under a bridge, 40 men from the Iraqi police and Kurdish peshmerga fighters take cover from the sun and the occasional mortar fired from across the river that marks ...

Peshmerga fighters relax on a hillside position on the frontline outside the town of Altun Kubri on Oct. 23, 2017 in Altun Kubri, Iraq. Iraqi forces and Kurdish fighters have clashed over the past ...

Arab and Turkoman politicians in Iraq say the deployment of Kurdish Peshmerga forces to the disputed Kirkuk region is aggravating ethnic tensions in the oil-rich province, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq ...