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. Tim Kaine:

   We have the availability of overwhelming air power, and we have boots on the ground that are ready and eager to fight -- the Peshmerga -- and they lack sufficient tools and equipment to do so. we cannot police a region that won't police itself, and so the ground troops need to be from the region, but the United States's strong support, via the air campaign, via training and equipping, helping guide the air campaign to make it effective -- that's what we should do.

2. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   In full coordination with the government of Iraq, we're deploying a specialized expeditionary targeting force to assist Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces and to put even more pressure on ISIL, these special operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture ISIL leaders.

3. Bakhtiar Aziz:

   The Americans gave it to the Iraqi Army, then when ISIS came, they took it from the Iraqi Army, now after the American airstrikes against ISIS, the weapon is in the hands of the Peshmerga.

4. Masoud Barzani:

   We were expecting everyone to show respect to the sacrifices made by the people of Kurdistan and its peshmerga [fighters] by inviting a representative from Kurdistan to this event and similar such events.

5. Paton Walsh:

   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.