Four Kurdish soldiers, known as peshmerga those who face death.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Kurdish troops known as peshmerga are responsible for keeping order, and do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends in the Mountains] Reference

The Kurdistan militia, known as the peshmerga, was put on alert Friday, and sent to the Turkish-Iraqi border that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Kurds Call for Turkish Troops to Leave] Reference

Ala, would you ask him why he joined the peshmerga?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003] Reference

A Kurdish peshmerga soldier cast his vote in Sulaimaniyah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Kurds Head to the Polls] Reference

Daryn, he has been with the peshmerga forces for six months.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003] Reference

You know, they're not coming across Kurdish peshmerga fighters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003] Reference

A lot of them are old Kurdish peshmerga or old Shi'a militia guys.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2004] Reference

But it is the furthest front line west for these peshmerga fighters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003] Reference

There is no fighting between peshmerga lines and the Iraqi's static lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

But the Ansar militants fought back and the peshmerga had to advance under fire.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Now We Have America'] Reference

Iraq's powerful peshmerga — Kurdish security forces — are unlikely to agree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dueling Markets: Can Food Fight Oil?] Reference

TALABANI: Wolf, the peshmerga report to elected officials, an elected authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2005] Reference

The Kurds have their own security forces -- the peshmerga -- which number roughly 100,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iraq Study Group Report] Reference

Each peshmerga unit of 360 soldiers had two Special Forces liaisons to coordinate airstrikes.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Now We Have America'] Reference

The tag team of Special Forces soldiers and peshmerga guerrillas will likely move south soon.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Now We Have America'] Reference

The Kurdish peshmerga are by far the biggest native force in the country, some 75,000 strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [NO MORE ILLUSIONS] Reference

Our peshmerga forces have fought and died alongside U.S. soldiers combating terrorists in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kurds Will Help Preserve U.S. Work, Sacrifice in Iraq] Reference

The peshmerga weren't participating in the fighting but appeared to be on guard, Mr. Rashid said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Kurds Call for Turkish Troops to Leave] Reference

Special Forces and the peshmerga has, despite the language barrier, led to a sense of camaraderie.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Now We Have America'] Reference

Special Forces to Mr. Barzani's peshmerga fighters, suggesting its complicity in training terrorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkey's Terror Problem] Reference

The Kurdish peshmerga, a 100,000-strong force in northern Iraq, could put pressure on the PKK guerillas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel Beehner: Does "Hot Pursuit" Allow Turkey to Invade Iraqi Kurdistan?] Reference

The Kurdish militia, the peshmerga, was put on alert in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave in the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkish Troops Pursue Rebels in Iraq] Reference

In some places the vacuum has been filled by local forces -- most effectively in Kurdistan by the peshmerga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward] Reference

At left, DNO's oil operations at its Hawler field are guarded by Kurdish militia forces, known as peshmerga.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Oasis of Oil in Kurdistan] Reference

He said Saturday that peshmerga troops could be seen near the Matin Mountains, which were being bombed regularly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Kurds Call for Turkish Troops to Leave] Reference

U.S. Special Forces cooperated closely with Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas, some 70,000 strong, during the invasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lebanon Scenario] Reference

In an autonomous Shiastan the group would likely have a role comparable to Kurdistan's de facto army, the peshmerga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror On The Tigris] Reference

There have been no proposals regarding the transformation of the peshmerga into a national defense force by the KRG.    From Wordnik.com.  [SENATOR CLINTON WRITES KURDS OUT OF HER SCRIPT] Reference

In April 2003, the peshmerga helped the U.S. fight Saddam? not just in the Kurdish area but also south of the Green Line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kurdish Issue Flares Up in Iraq] Reference

While they've distanced themselves from the PKK, the peshmerga may retaliate if Turkey continues to target Kurdish villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dueling Markets: Can Food Fight Oil?] Reference

We've seen that in the north in Mosul where essentially the peshmerga (ph) or the Kurds take over, and in the south, in Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007] Reference

Short of declaring war on the PKK, the peshmerga could easily cut off supply lines of food and arms into the Qandil mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turkish Front] Reference

Esmail and thousands of Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas like him -- as many as 70,000 -- now form the backbone of the U.S. military campaign in the north.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Now We Have America'] Reference

In the Kurdish regions, the United States has allowed the two parties and their peshmerga military force free reign, which has included some ethnic cleansing of Arabs in Kirkuk.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Security, No Democracy] Reference