Synonyms for peshmerga
pesh·mer·ga

Princeton's WordNet

1. peshmerganoun

   a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state

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1. Van Wilgenburg:

   The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes turned the balance. ... Without airstrikes, most likely the city would have been much more difficult to defend, the peshmerga did play a role, but it was mostly the airstrikes.

2. Paton Walsh:

   I think the hope amongst the Peshmerga and the coalition is that the level of manpower they have here, their dominance in the skies, means potentially this could be over in days, but with a town of this size which had tens of thousands living in it before -- which ISIS has had months to prepare for an onslaught against -- this could turn out to be trickier than some are hoping.

3. Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari:

   Mosul needs good planning, preparations, commitment from all the key players, peshmerga is a major force; you cannot do Mosul without Peshmerga.

4. Saed Mimousini:

   ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi executed 56 of his men after their defeat at the hands of the Peshmerga forces in the Cowir area south of Erbilm, executions took place in the Al-Namrood, east Mosul.

5. Paton Walsh:

   That is exactly the strategy today and it is working -- to a degree -- not as fast as we would like, perhaps, but we are making gains. the Peshmerga here want to show that they can be united with coalition air power, with Western military advisers, who we understand are in their midst here as well, to launch a successful -- and they hope brief -- offensive towards this town, but also strategically, because of what Sinjar could mean in the future, down the line.