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Kurdish Peshmerga forces drive a vehicle near the town of Makhmur, south of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan after ISIS insurgents withdrew August 18, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Kurdistan: The Oasis of Stability in Region of Dangers

by Scott Anderson | Aug 22, 2016 | Features

Washington-Driving through the desert, Azar Mirkhan told me about the death of his father, Gen. Heso Mirkhan, the peshmerga warrior who helped lead the 1974 Kurdish uprising against the Iraqi government, and who then took his family into exile in Iran. When the...

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KDPI members (AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED)

Peshmerga Liberates 12 Villages to South, East of Mosul

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 16, 2016 | Middle East

Erbil – Kurdish Peshmerga forces announced that the military operation is almost over after it had liberated 12 villages from south and west Mosul till al-Gwer Bridge. Earlier, Peshmerga was able to retrieve nine villages followed by three others. German news agency...

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ISIS militants celebrate on vehicles taken from Iraqi security forces, at a street in the city of Mosul, June 12, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

Nineveh’s Nujaifi: Iran Seeks to Provoke Arab-Kurdish Strife

by Dalshad Abdullah | Aug 4, 2016 | Middle East

Irbil-Former Governor of Nineveh Atheel al-Nujaifi reiterated that Iran’s nonstop determination to incorporate paramilitary militias such as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq proves its expansionist intentions. Iran, via proxy militias, wishes to extend...

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An injured member of Kurdish Peshmerga forces reacts as smoke rises after an attack at Bai Hassan oil station, northwest of Kirkuk, Iraq, July 31, 2016. Reuters

ISIS Breaks into West Kirkuk, Iraq Energy Facilities

by Dalshad Abdullah | Aug 1, 2016 | Middle East

Kirkuk- Energy facilities west of Kirkuk, located in northern Iraq, were made arenas to vicious clashes between ISIS and Peshmerga militants on Sunday. The clashes came after an attack first launching against the AB2 gas compressor station, about 15 km northwest of...

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Female Kurdish Peshmerga take part their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan province…Female Kurdish Peshmerga take part their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan province, Iraq March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal

U.S. to Offer Military Support to Kurdish Peshmerga

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jul 13, 2016 | World

Erbil – The United States has signed an agreement with the Kurdish government in northern Iraq to give military and financial support to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. A military memorandum of accord (MOU) was signed on Tuesday between the U.S. Department of...