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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters monitor the area from their front line position in Bashiqa, a town 13 kilometres north-east of Mosul on August 16, 2014. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
by Dalshad Abdullah | Jan 21, 2015 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces are moving towards greater independence from the central government Baghdad, Peshmerga Ministry Secretary-General Lt. Gen. Jabbar Yawar said earlier this week. In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Yawar said: “We are...
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File photo of a Kurdish Peshmerga soldier holding a Kurdistan flag from August 6, 2012. (REUTERS/Azad Lashkari/Files)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 5, 2014 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat— A senior Kurdish Peshmerga official confirmed on Saturday that Iraqi Kurdistan’s security force, known as the Peshmerga, had not been invited to take part in the security operation against Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Iraq’s western Anbar...
