28 July 2014 Kirkuk - Kurdistan president, Massoud Barzani inspected the Peshmerga forces in Kirkuk and met with the leaders of the Peshmerga in the Dibis north west of the city. A security source ...

Kirkuk’s Kurds had to obtain special permission ... initially placed in the left hand of a famous Peshmerga statue in the city, with the Iraqi one. Taha said he will wait for decisions to ...

footage also showed the PMF protesters insulting and disrespecting the Kurdistan Region flag and the Peshmerga statue, further enraging the Kurds. The commander said that Kirkuk families were ...

A statue of Iraqi president Saddam ... File Over the following two days US-backed Kurdish Peshmerga fighters seize the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul. Saddam's birthplace of Tikrit in north ...

The head of Iraqi Turkmen Front on Thursday criticized the return of Peshmerga forces to Kirkuk, as the Iraqi government approved Peshmerga forces becoming part of the Defense Ministry.

The return of Peshmerga forces to Kirkuk could lead to a new crisis in the region and pave the way for more secessionist movements that would undermine Iraq’s unity, according to the leader of ...

KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – A group of artists in the province of Kirkuk have erected a giant statue of Peshmerga fighter as a sign of appreciation for the Kurdish force protecting the ...

The Peshmerga seized the opportunity created by the ensuing security vacuum and took complete control over Kirkuk. Kurds insist that Kirkuk is rightfully theirs. The multiethnic region is legally ...

A giant Peshmerga statue on the Kirkuk-Erbil road, completed shortly before the 2017 Referendum, now flies the Iraqi, rather than Kurdish, flag. But while Kirkuk city has benefited from investment ...

However, there are lingering problems such as disputes between Erbil and Baghdad over budgets and arms for the Kurdish security forces, called Peshmerga ... down toward Kirkuk to the south ...

The agreement marks the first such arrangement between the two sides since the Iraqi army reclaimed the disputed Kirkuk area from the Kurdish peshmerga (militia) in bloody confrontations in October.

Kurdish peshmerga affiliated with the PUK and KDP either withdrew or fled. Perhaps most shocking to the Kurds was Washington’s opposition to the referendum and response to the Kirkuk takeover.