The Kurdish-US Military Partnership in Iraq: A Study in Cooperation Against ISIS (2014-2017)

The world is well aware of the role and tasks carried out by the Peshmerga forces after the events of 2003 in Iraq. They played a major role in helping the United States in its mission to capture Saddam Hussein, and in 2004 they helped capture the Pakistani terrorist Hassan Ghul, who was working for Al-Qaeda. Therefore, the joint cooperation between the coalition forces and the Peshmerga forces became noticeable during the period of time following the change of the regime, noting that the successive events witnessed after that period were harsh events characterized by security chaos and a lack of central control over all Iraqi cities in general, except for the cities under the control of the autonomous government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which is the area subject to the Kurdish local government.The world is well aware of the great effort made by the Kurds in the events of 2014 in the Iraqi cities that were under the control of ISIS (Mosul, Tikrit, and Anbar), and it is perhaps the most difficult period in the history of modern Iraq, knowing that the Kurdistan Regional Government took it upon itself to shelter the displaced from those cities and provide them with safe haven, in addition to the health and educational services that the regional government played its role in providing alternative sites for Arab schools and universities in the various regions of Kurdistan so that the wheel of education could continue without stopping or delaying.