Pêşmerge
Appearance
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A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter holding his daughter in their village outside of Dahuk.
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The Kurdish Peshmerga platoon of the newly-formed Joint Iraqi Security Company marches to class, Mosul, Iraq. The U.S. 2nd Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division are jointly training Kurdish and Iraqi forces, to become the first self-sufficient local military force.
External links
[edit]- Willing to face Death: A History of Kurdish Military Forces - the Peshmarga - from the Ottoman Empire to Present-Day Iraq archive copy at the Wayback Machine by Michael G. Lortz
- Newsweek article speculating on Peshmerga involvement against the Iraqi rebellion
- The New York Times article about the current status of Peshmerga
- Peshmerga on Flickr.