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Iraq, indicating the territory now controlled by the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS.?

We are sharing 1,000-kilometer boarder with the terrorists, said W., General Secretary of the Ministry of Peshmergaler, the Kurdish armed forces alarmed by the ISIS gains. Right now the Peshmerga just?want?to defend and strengthen this line and stop the terrorists from entering Kurdistan.

As ISIS militants advanced, Iraqi soldiers abandoned their post and the Peshmerga quickly moved in sealing the security of vacuum land using claims of contrasted lands. So far, ISIS has made no threats on the Kurdish territory. But it's as not clear that the ethnic mission of the Kurdish claim or an unwillingness to open new front in their offences, particularly against the capable Beshmerga fighters.?

The Peshmerga battled at Baghdad and anchored for a national recognition and territory for a decade. Many in the West recognize the Peshmerga from images of their female recruits with military fatigues, long braids and clash and gobs training in the mountainous region between Iraq and Turkey of combat against large. It's not well trained armies, and ingrained?a nationalism fueled by decades of oppression, led the surge with a strong, fighting force.

There is a great national soul inside our fighters, W. said, adding that retired soldiers have been asking to be let's to fight against ISIS. Today, there are many young recruits wandering outside where W. said was the Peshmerga ministerial building, most have never seen combat as the Kurdish fighters haven't shaped in the top of war since they fought the Iraqi army more than a decade ago.?

Still the 200,000-strong force might be the best chance to fight ISIS as the US-built Iraqi army remained ineffective. Even with??internal political?dissent, the Peshmergla are a source of national pride among the Kurdish population. In a shop in E. a group of men?watched?their forces' maneuver in the desert against ISIS on a Kurdish TV channel. The soldiers in camouflage flied their sun-crest Kurdish …