https://journal.antispublisher.id/index.php/EJLHSS <p data-start="118" data-end="578">The <em data-start="122" data-end="174">Journal of Learning on History and Social Sciences</em> (JLHSS) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality research in History, Philology, Pedagogy, and other Social Science learning areas. It welcomes contributions from researchers, academics, and practitioners worldwide in the form of original studies, reviews, case studies, literature analyses, and other scholarly works that advance knowledge and understanding in the field.</p> <p data-start="580" data-end="923">JLHSS also addresses the challenges and opportunities brought by technological advancements and societal change, including environmental issues arising from human activity. By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, the journal aims to provide valuable insights and solutions for contemporary global issues in history and the social sciences.</p> en-US [email protected] (Mahardika Darmawan K.W) [email protected] (Mochamad Nashrullah) Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://journal.antispublisher.id/index.php/EJLHSS/article/view/1923 <p><strong><em>Objective:</em></strong><em> The aim of this research is to address the political, military and intelligence role of Kurdish forces on U.S.-led strategy to dismantle the Iraqi regime in 2003 and follow what results came out for the place occupied by Kurds and Kurdistan Region until 2005. <strong>Method:</strong> The research examines the role of Peshmerga from logics, intelligence-gathering, and military operations towards Kirkuk and Mosul to the postwar institutional transition from a wartime cooperation in alliance among Kurdish political actors to a long-term partnership built around these actors within the Governing Council and its constitutional process. <strong>Results:</strong> It argues that U.S.-Kurdish cooperation in the war should not be seen as a stopgap battlefield arrangement which had warmer relations between Washington and Ankara merely reintroduced but rather as the product of an ongoing political-security process that has made Iraqi Kurdistan, particularly following Washington's difficulties with Turkey, one of three vital geographic-political-military bases constituting the Northern front. The conclusion is that, by participating in the 2003 war, Kurds secured a place at the post Saddam table which in forming regional institutions and Kurdish co-ordination enabled them to obtain constitutional recognition of federalism (and of Kurdistan Region) in 2005. <strong>Novelty:</strong> The research examines the role of Peshmerga from logics, intelligence-gathering, and military operations towards Kirkuk and Mosul to the postwar institutional transition from a wartime cooperation in alliance among Kurdish political actors to a long-term partnership built around these actors within the Governing Council and its constitutional process.</em></p> Haji Mustafa Sheeko, Prof. Dr. Mohammed D Kareem Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of Learning on History and Social Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://journal.antispublisher.id/index.php/EJLHSS/article/view/1923 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000