The Peshmerga is more than a military force. It is a symbol of the struggle, sacrifice and identity of the people of Kurdistan.
Today is a historic day for Kurdistan and the Peshmerga; the process of unifying and reorganizing the Peshmerga forces has been successfully completed.
This unification is the first step of a long process, and the next phase is even more important. It must focus on strengthening military capabilities, providing advanced weapons and air defense systems, developing competencies, and comprehensively advancing the Peshmerga forces.
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The KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani described the unification of the Peshmerga forces as a historic achievement and emphasized that the next phase must focus on strengthening their military capabilities, providing advanced weapons and air defence systems, and further developing the Peshmerga as a professional, organized and unified national force.
PM Barzani also said: “we reaffirm our readiness and support for Federal Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Ali al-Zaidi, in strengthening cooperation between the Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi Army.”
He added “We hope the [Iraqi] federal government will cooperate with and support us in safeguarding the rights of the Peshmerga and ensuring that their salaries and financial entitlements are equal to those of their counterparts in the Iraqi Army, with the same rights. Under the Constitution, the Peshmerga is part of Iraq’s defence system, and its constitutional rights and financial entitlements must be guaranteed within this framework.”
German Kurdish boxer Agit Kabayel signed the Golden Book in his hometown of Bochum on invitation of Mayor Jörg Luka and received the green and gold world championship belt on the balcony of Bochum Town Hall.
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stop your thugs from raining drones and missiles on our cities and then have the audacity to ask for respect.
I wouldn’t attack celeberation or flags myself. But I understand people who do. PMF are part of Iraqi forces. They get paid by Iraq and according to the goverment, they act under it’s instructions.
Dozens of drones every day and you want people to act like nothing is happening. Just today, multiple drones from Iraqi forces attacked civilian factories in KRG. So yeh, your rage might be better directed to your fellow millitias.
• Shahab has been martyred.
• His father was a martyr.
• His grandfather was a victim of the Anfal genocide.
• His great-grandfather was a martyr of the Republic of Mahabad.
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Sunday received a congratulatory message from Turkish FM Hakan Fidan on the occasion of Newroz, expressing hope that Newroz becomes "a source of strengthening friendship, solidarity, and the preservation of common values" - Statement
A deadly war is unfolding next door, & Turkey has “serious concerns” not about the war, but about CNN showing the geographic reality of more than 50 million Kurds.
God help us all.
#Kurdistan#IranWar@clarissaward@cnni
Who are we? Let me tell you, America! We are the Kurds you betrayed in Rojava, north-east Syria, your anti-ISIS coalition partners. You sold us to Turkey in 2018, which annexed our Kurdish city of Afrin for allied jihadist factions. Then again in 2019, when our cities of Sere Kaniye and Gire Spi were handed over to Turkey for “security concerns,” even though not a single bullet from Rojava had been fired toward Turkey. And once more in 2026, when you handed us over to the former ISIS and al-Qaeda Syrian regime under the extreme hardliner al-Jolani. Thousands of us were massacred, ethnically cleansed, hunted street by street. Our women fighters were beheaded, their braids cut as war trophies by jihadist men.
We are the Kurds you betrayed in Basur, northern Iraq, who held a popular referendum in 2017, winning by 92% to separate from Iraq, a country that had ethnically cleansed and murdered us for years, only for our freedom to be denied. The Iraqi central government, encouraged by your condemnation of our referendum, attacked us and forcibly took over our Kurdish city of Kirkuk. Our peshmerga forces were run over by Iraqi tanks. Even now, Iraqi forces continue forcing Kurds out of their homes, as they have since the 1960s, because the city is oil-rich.
We are the same Kurds in northern Iraq whom you urged to stand up against the Saddam regime in 1991, only to abandon us when we rose up. We were massacred, and 2 million of us were displaced. You were shamed into Operation “Provide Comfort,” but only after thousands of us had already been killed following your call to rise.
We are the Kurds in Bakur, western Turkey whose lives and bodies have been sacrificed because of your economic and military ties to Turkey- your NATO allies who built a jihadi corridor and openly supports ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra.
We are the same Kurds in Rojhilat whom you betrayed during the 1975 Algiers Agreement. The Kurdish uprising collapsed overnight; tens of thousands were displaced. Iraqi forces launched severe reprisals—those who witnessed what had happened to our fellow Kurds in Basur and Rojava now refuse to be your foot soldiers.
We know who you are, America.
But it’s no wonder- despite this long and painful history of betrayal- that YOU still don’t know who we are. The oppressed carry the memory of every wound, but the oppressor forgets the scars it has inflicted.
Iran’s foreign minister says Trump has betrayed diplomacy and is talking about bombing the negotiation table. Well, that true, but he should also remember what his own regime did in 1989 to the Kurdish leader Ghassemlou, who was assassinated during talks with Iran by Iranians.