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The Evolution of the Peshmerga vs. the Case of Islamic State in Iraq

... reflected in the tactics of war, as evidenced by the Kurdish armed forces in Iraq. This environment compelled the peshmerga to confront a new type of irregular warfare as an interesting case of an organised non-state military force. The war against Islamic State united the peshmerga forces for, possibly, the first time and effected a radical change in the Kurdish use of military tactics, including the shift from defensive to offensive strategies. The Middle Eastern context offers an effective frame through which to study ...

17.04.2018

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What Lies Beneath the Seizure of Sinjar?

On November 13, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, backed by US airstrikes, retook the Northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, located on the Road 47, about 60 miles from Mosul and 120 miles from Raqqa, in Syria, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The Iraqi Kurdish forces lost the control of the city in August 2014, during an overwhelming assault launched by the jihadists who were eventually stopped in their expansion by US airstrikes, and the subsequent ...

16.11.2015

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