peshmerga
Noun
Meaning
a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state
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Arif declared a ceasefire in February 1964 which provoked a split among Kurdish urban radicals on one hand and Peshmerga (Freedom fighters) forces led by Barzani on the other.
A video by a Polish volunteer Peshmerga sniper shows the sniper struggling to feed a fresh round with the bolt on a Serbian M93 rifle.
Al-Husseini told that control of disputed territories, and others, was achieved by military force, rather than consensus, unwilling to recognise the sacrifices of Peshmerga soldiers.
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter looks down the road to Makhmur that was retaken from the Islamic Sate, south of Erbil September 10, 2014.
After that, one Shiite militia fighter was killed, and eight were captured by Peshmerga forces.”
As one Iraqi special forces convoy rolled north from Baghdad through peshmerga checkpoints, Iraqi soldiers cheerfully greeted the guards in basic Kurdish.