Jash (Kurdish: جاش, romanized: Caş, lit. 'donkey's foal'), or "الجحوش" or The Light Regiments or fursan is a type of collaborator, usually a military unit composed of people of Kurdish descent that cooperates with enemy combatants against the Kurdish Army, Kurdish rebels, or the Kurdish civilian population. The term is considered derogatory in a cultural sense, in much the same way as the use of the term quisling in the Western world.
History
The Light regiments were first established in the 1940s, during the 1943 Barzani revolt in northern Iraq, then it flourished and start to take an important role in the 1960s during the First Iraqi–Kurdish War, when General Khaleel Jassim was in the command of these regiments and associated them with many Iraqi Army operations against the Kurd rebels, specially in Amadiya in 1965 and Rawandiz 1966.During the al-Anfal campaign, the military campaign of genocide and looting commanded by Ali Hassan al-Majid, al-Majid's orders informed...