Peshmerga use M2 machine guns to fight ISIS
The M2 is perfect for the Kurds; it’s a weapon America first employed in WW2 against an evil empire and it was utilized alongside tactics used about 100 years ago.
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Watch: The French 20mm cannon employed by the Peshmerga
The gunner will adjust and fire using a right footed peddle for a trigger, an assistant gunner to load and maintain the gun, and a third man to maintain and run the engines…
Challenging Daesh to battle, fun, chaos, and security concerns – Pokémon Go
An American volunteer with the Kurdish Peshmerga caught a Squirtle near Mosul, Iraq and subsequently challenged Daesh (ISIS) to a Pokémon battle.
Watch: Inside the Team Room- Peshmerga: Coalition Airstrikes and Foreign Fighters (Episode 4)
In this, the last episode of Inside the Team Room-Peshmerga, they discuss just how effective coalition air strikes are based on their first hand experience fighting with the YPG in Syria and the Peshmerga in Kurdistan. Find out more about the foreign volunteers showing up to fight ISIS and what motivates them to fight alongside the Peshmerga. […]
Watch: The real, ‘ISIS Hunting Club’ – More than a trendy patch
The Kurdish Counter-Terrorism Group, are most the elite of the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Watch: Peshmerga Train With the 12.7mm DShK
Peshmerga and most of the Kurdish military forces have a preference to shooting a machine gun 1 bullet at a time unless there is a serious need of suppressive fire, it’s weird and sometimes I even find myself doing it.
Peshmerga Train with American Volunteers in CQB
Nearly all major offensives done by Kurdish forces revolve around capturing a building or city from the Islamic state.
Watch: American Volunteers with the Peshmerga- Clearing Houses in Bashir (Part 2)
After the fighting we head in to search buildings for any valuable resources that we turn over to the Peshmerga. After we complete our SSE (Search and Seizure of Equipment) our team exfils through an alternate route that is occupied by Hastalshabi forces (Shia militia), we were an unwelcome presence to them for sure. Image courtesy […]
Two-Thirds of the HMMWV’s the U.S. Supplied to Iraq, are Still in the Hands of Daesh (ISIS)
Daesh used more than 30 car bombs in its Ramadi offensive. Many of these involved armored U.S. HMMWVs and some of the bombs were large enough to level an entire city block.
Watch: American Volunteers with the Peshmerga- Turret Gunner Engages a VBIED (Part 1)
On the first day we make our way through several small villages to stage just outside the city. At first light we begin our push under mortar fire; Daesh sends a VBIED in from Hawija to stop our progression but to no avail. Image courtesy of Getty
Peshmerga train with Rocket Propelled Grenades
They are used by Peshmerga forces primarily against VBIEDs because they are far more prevalent in the war against Daesh and cause devastation on a much larger scale.
Captured: Daesh (ISIS) Terrorist who Laughed Buying Sex Slaves at Market
Now he has now been captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq, according to a pro-Kurdish Facebook page. His fate remains unclear – but is likely to be grim considering the number of female fighters in Kurd militias.
