Dr. Simon Ross Valentine is a freelance writer writing a book on the peshmerga. Email: [email protected]. Lt. Colonel Nahida Ahmad Rashid is a top ranking female commander in the peshmerga, the army ...

Women fighting in the ranks of the armed Kurdish forces have come into the spotlight as ISIS has made large territorial gains in Mosul, one of the largest cities in Iraq, and battled to take control ...

The Kurdish Peshmerga has been battling the ISIS terror group since it swept through much of Iraq and Syria in 2014, and one of its most unique aspects has been the ...

Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan. GWER, Iraq—First ...

This article was first published on The Daily Signal. First you notice the sound of jet engines. The sky is overcast, so you can't see the coalition warplanes. But you can hear them. And you know what ...

Margaret George Shello, an Assyrian, the first woman to join the Kurdish Peshmerga. (AINA) The grave of the woman commonly believed to be the first female Peshmerga has been renovated and was opened ...