“We are not that different,” Maj. Naheda Ahmed, 42, commander of a women’s Peshmerga Infantry Regiment in Sulayminiyah said, at the Inaugural Northern Iraq Women's Conference, April 20 at Forward Operating Base Warrior, Kirkuk, Iraq. “It is important to start a dialogue about women’s issues effecting women in Iraq with our American counterparts…we are their voices." (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Margaret C. Nelson)