Iraq's Kurds Mobilize To Stop The Threat Of Islamist Militants

Kurdish Fighters Mobilize to Stop Threat of Islamist Militants -- Wall Street Journal

Troops From Kurdish Regions May Represent Best Bulwark Against Insurgents' Advances in Iraq, Syria

ISTANBUL—Fighters from Kurdish regions are mobilizing to stop the threat of Islamist militants who are advancing across parts of Syria and central Iraq from reaching their own nearby territories.

Northern Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, and the Kurdistan Communities Union, which controls the Kurd-dominated region of northeastern Syria, both pledged Wednesday to resist the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, as the group extended dramatic military gains.

Thousands of men from the KRG's well-trained Peshmerga—which means "those who face death"—were deployed around the southern border of the Kurdish autonomous enclave. They included two brigades in Tuz Khurmatu, close to the disputed oil city of Kirkuk. Peshmerga units, which the KRG says are 190,000-strong, also set up checkpoints along the road to Mosul to regulate the flow of refugees and guard against militant attacks or infiltration.

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