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peshmerga
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Noun1.peshmerga - a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state
Kurd - a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state


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Here the Sahwas, recruited initially by the US military but now on the payroll of Baghdad, are not welcome -- especially by Kurdish parties and their powerful militia, the peshmergas.
He sees another good sign in the fact that Sunni Arab officers from the old army are coming back to duty, including in the 2nd Division, which started as a grouping of peshmergas - the Kurdish guerrillas.
Mohammad Al Jouburi, a member of the Arab bloc in the governorate of Kirkuk confirmed to Gulf News that two brigades of the Peshmergas forces who are responsible for the protection of Kurds have moved from Sulaimaniyah and Arbil to the towns of Qerager and Shawan about 20 kilometres outside of Kirkuk.
 
 
 
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