My first deployment to Iraq was as an embedded adviser to a reflagged Kurdish Peshmerga battalion in Mosul in 2005. The 3rd Battalion of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Iraqi Army Division was a Peshmerga ...

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Nawaran, Iraq – Neshwan Zebari is a finance student at the University of Cihan in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region – but these days, he is not studying. “My dad was in the Peshmerga, so he ...

Late last year, Captain Khatoon Ali Krdr, 36, the commander of an all-female Kurdish peshmerga unit, visited a family in the village of Kocho in northern Iraqi Kurdistan to see a woman who’d had ...