Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces jump through flaming hoops in a performance during their graduation ceremony in Faysh Khabur, on the junction of Iraq's borders with both Syria and Turkey, in northern Iraq on June 29, 2008. Two-thousand Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces, who provide security for the Kurdish north and are commanded by the autonomous Kurdish administration of northern Iraq, graduated from their military training today. Getty Images logo Getty Images 17 months ago

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces jump through flaming hoops in a performance during their graduation ceremony in Faysh Khabur, on the junction of Iraq's borders with both Syria and Turkey, in northern Iraq on June 29, 2008. Two-thousand Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces, who provide security for the Kurdish north and are commanded by the autonomous Kurdish administration of northern Iraq, graduated from their military training today.

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