Kurdish peshmerga fighters To the west, they are terrorists, yet they are now fighting on the same side as their interests converge with the US in the fight to help Iraq’s Kurdish forces stave off a jihadi offensive. Battle-hardened Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) militants have come to the aid of peshmerga fighters in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis , augmenting US air strikes to halt the jihadi group’s advance into the autonomous region of northern Iraq. More On this story On this topic IN Iraq Sun-baked men and women from the outlawed Kurdish group, in baggy sirwal pants and dusty sneakers, stand guard at their base in the recently recaptured town of Makhmour. They greet visitors cheerfully, but keep their grenades in hand. “Our support is just as important for the peshmerga as these US strikes – bombings alone can’t […]