Word: peshmerga
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...Afghan capital, Kabul, after the Taliban fled. But in the heat of battle, there was no way of stopping the key U.S. proxy force from pursuing its own agenda against Washington's wishes, helping set the stage for the current unstable equilibrium in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Now, the Kurdish "peshmerga" appear to have copied the Northern Alliance strategy...
...Barda Rash, they had it again today. "Nawroz means the end of a tyrannical king," said Khasro Kadir, who organized the celebration. "For us it's the end of Saddam's tyranny." For 12 years the village has been directly on the front lines between Iraqi forces and the peshmerga guarding Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Today they sang and danced around the traditional Nawroz fire, 20 days late, on top of a hill that used to be off-limits because of the risk of being shot at by Iraqi soldiers...
...Kurds in northern Iraq broke free 12 years ago and have been out of Baghdad's reach ever since. But Hussein's presence always hovered over them, assuring them they were never secure. Until today. "This is the happiest day of my life, happier than in 1991," said one peshmerga, Bibo Zebari. From his outpost on top of Maqlub mountain, he'd heard the news of the uprising in Baghdad on the BBC Arabic shortwave service and his soldiers spontaneously began singing and dancing. "We are not just happy for ourselves as Kurds but for all Iraqis," he said. "Plus...
...latest in a running battle waged since Ansar had been driven from its front line in the lowlands. A day earlier, about 100 U.S. soldiers had joined with Kurdish peshmerga (those who face death) in an assault against Ansar's base. The U.S. bombs flattened a mosque in the village of Biarra that had been used as terrorist headquarters, replete with a gun pit on top. The assault capped a week of pummeling by American Tomahawk cruise missiles that prompted the al-Qaeda-linked militants to take to the snowy mountains bordering Iran. This corner of northeastern Iraq, near...
...trying, unsuccessfully, to bomb the Iraqi army into oblivion. The Kurdish authorities had closed the road to the front-line village of Khazar, ostensibly for our safety but also perhaps because they had lost the village the night before. Reinforcements swept along the dusty road: we watched as noisy peshmerga, taciturn Special Forces, a top commander, the brother of the ruler of this part of Kurdistan, moved past in a convoy of Land Cruisers, waving regally. The next day we discovered that the Kurdish commander who waved courteously to us was badly injured by a U.S. air strike further along...