Iraq Kurd forces: from guards to anti-jihadist vanguard
Iraqi Kurdish forces, which have been thrust into the vanguard of the battle against jihadists, fared well maintaining security in their autonomous region but face a daunting task fighting the militants./ Famed as guerrilla fighters during their decades-long struggle for self-rule, the Kurdish peshmerga forces are now made up of a new generation of recruits without the battlefield experience of their forebears. "Training is very limited by Western standards," said Michael Knights, a fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. ...
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