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Perched on isolated slopes, amid oak and mountain ash, Kurdish guerrillas known as pesh mergas “those who are prepared to die” have in recent years wiped out whole units of Turkish and Iraqi soldiers and Iranian revolutionary guards.

A Good Article on the Kurds | Letter Never Sent 2002

The village to which he moved was under the control of Kurdish guerrillas known as pesh merga.

Putting Saddam Hussein on Trial Neier, Aryeh 1993

The dispute began when leaders from the semiautonomous Kurdistan region deployed their own soldiers - known as pesh merga - near largely Arab neighborhoods around Kirkuk, saying they were worried about attacks on peaceful demonstrations.

NYT > Home Page By JACK HEALY 2011

After the American invasion, Kurdish troops from the north - known as the pesh merga

NYT > Home Page By STEVEN LEE MYERS 2010

After the American invasion, Kurdish troops from the north - known as the pesh merga

NYT > Home Page By STEVEN LEE MYERS 2010

As Saddam Hussein's army collapsed, Kurdish forces called the pesh merga pushed from their three provinces in the north and occupied sections of territory in Nineveh, Kirkuk and Diyala Provinces that the Kurds claimed as theirs historically.

NYT > Home Page 2010

After the American invasion, Kurdish troops from the north - known as the pesh merga

NYT > Home Page By STEVEN LEE MYERS 2010

As Saddam Hussein's army collapsed, Kurdish forces called the pesh merga pushed from their three provinces in the north and occupied sections of Nineveh, Kirkuk and Diyala Provinces that the Kurds had historically claimed.

ModerateVoters.org 2010

In recent months, the Shiite-led central government in Baghdad, which includes some Kurds in prominent positions, has accused Kurdish leaders of attempting to expand their territory by deploying their militia, known as pesh merga, to areas south of the autonomous region.

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The predominantly Arab-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in recent weeks has sent the Iraqi army to drive Kurdish forces out of some of the lands, ordering Kurdish troops, known as pesh merga, to retreat north of the boundary of the Kurdish autonomous region.

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