Archive for the ‘Peshmerga’ Category
The Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, PJAK) is a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq[2] that has been carrying out attacks in the Kurdistan Province of Iran and other Kurdish-inhabited areas.
Peshmerga, Peshmerga or peshmerge (Kurdish: pêşmerge) is the term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning “those who face death” (Pesh front + marg death) the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan have been around since the advent of the Kurdish independence movement in the early 1920s, following the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires which had jointly ruled over the area. Peshmerga forces do make use of female fighters, making Kurdistan one of only three entities in the Middle East that actively uses female soldiers (others being Israel and Iran).