Battle of Zumar

Clashes between Kurdish and Shi'ite Turkmen paramilitary forces broke out late on April 23 in northern Iraq, killing at least eight people and cutting a strategic road between Baghdad and the oil city of Kirkuk, security and medical sources said. 

This 19-year old Kurdish girls is a newlywed. However, for Neistehman there will be no honeymoon, as she will go off to war and fight ISIS! Her name means ‘country’, which is the reason she decided to join the Kurdish Peshmerga forces to defend her lands against the Islamic jihadist terrorists. Her new husband will also join the fight against ISIS.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants have killed at least 24 members of the Kurdish security forces in a surprise attack in northern Iraq, Kurdish officials said, in one of the deadliest single battles for the Kurds since last summer.
   

Iraqi Kurds claimed Dec. 18 to have broken a siege on a mountain where Yazidi civilians and fighters have long been trapped as the US said air strikes killed several Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leaders in recent weeks.
      

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said Dec. 10 that 727 of its fighters have been killed in the conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) since the jihadists launched their offensive in June.

A statement from the region's military forces, known as the peshmerga, said 3,564 members of the Kurdish security forces had also been wounded over the past six months.

The first group of Iraqi Peshmerga forces sent to fight in the Syrian town of Kobane in October has returned to Iraq through Turkey.

According to sources, the Peshmerga forces arrived at the Arbil International Airport via a private plane from Turkey's southeastern Şanlıurfa province Dec. 4.