“For over 100 years, the Peshmerga have been fighting for stability and democracy,” explains Sirwan Saber Mustafa, chairman of Korek Telecom and a Peshmerga general. Nearly 2,000 KRG soldiers ...

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Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday received the commander of the US-led global coalition against the ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

Iraqi forces say they have now wrested control of all areas of Kirkuk province from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, following fierce fighting. They say they have retaken Alton Kupri, the last Kurdish ...

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where he served from 2005-2006 as chief combat advisor for a brigade of Kurdish peshmerga units fighting against insurgents in northern Iraq. He became assistant to the vice chairman for the Joint ...

Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group in late 2017, but its jihadists remain active in the country, particularly in rural areas. Sunday's blast killed an army regiment commander, another ...

The joint deployment of Iraqi and Kurdish forces has curtailed Islamic State (ISIS) activities in the Kurdistan Region’s southernmost reaches, once a hotbed of jihadist activity because of a security ...

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Friday in a statement that two members of the Iraqi border guards were killed and another wounded in an attack that it said was carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ ...

Forbes highlighted that President Barzani's recent meeting with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi is a testament to his efforts in fostering Kurdish unity.