Profile: Who are the Peshmerga?

Posted By Claire Davis

Posted 11 years ago

The Peshmerga, whose name translates as "those who face death", are the Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq. In recent weeks, they have been fighting Islamist militants of the Islamic State…

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