1. The Mahabad peshmerga also engaged Iranian reconnaissance teams in the region throughout early May 1946.

2. International media agencies and activists alike have pushed images of female Peshmerga in their coverage and on social networking sites.

3. To the east and north stand Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, keen to reclaim land taken from them by Saddam Hussein more than two decades ago.

4. The ISIS militant, who appears to be wearing traditional Kurdish clothes, Beheads one of the three hostages, said to be peshmerga fighters, after railing against Iraqi Kurdish officials, threatening to behead others