Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volunteer Yazidis receive military training from the peshmerga in an effort to protect their families and territory from Islamic ...

BERLIN – Germany's army has started training 32 Kurdish peshmerga fighters at an army school in Bavaria to support them in their fight against Islamic State extremists. A spokesman for the German ...

As fighting continues to rage between ISIS and its enemies in Iraq and Syria, the female soldiers fighting within the Kurdish Peshmerga have gained increasing prominence. Unlike many neighboring ...

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 ...

For the past month, US, British and French advisers have been training fighters from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in battlefield techniques at military bases across northern Iraq. The conflict ...

The West, believing that Iraq’s Kurdish forces, known as the peshmerga, are its best hope in Iraq, has been sending them millions of dollars in weapons and training. But because of the way in which ...

While on my recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan, I visited several frontline positions of the Peshmerga forces, where they are facing the Iraqi Army and active ISIS cells. Firstly, I visited Brigade 14 ...