The Kurdistan Social Democratic Party is a political party in the Kurdistan Region. It was founded as Kurdistan Socialist Party - Iraq. The first leader was Saleh Yousefi after 1981.
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The Peshmerga are the internal security forces of the Kurdistan Region. According to the Constitution of Iraq, federal regions are responsible for "the establishment and organization of the internal s
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…the Kurdistan Toilers' Party in an alliance called the Kurdistan Region Coalition. The Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party has a paramilitary wing of Peshmerga soldiers under the direct command of party leader Mohammed Haji Mahmoud, whose nom de guerre is "Kaka Hama". The party's forces have fought in the Iraqi…
Bedir Khan Beg leading a cavalry charge.
Kurdish cavalry under Mahmud Barzanji.
Mustafa Barzani (center front) with other Kurdish military officials of the Republic of Mahabad.
Mid-20th-century Peshmerga fighters with the famous Kurdish guerrilla fighter Mama Risha (center back).