
Anger at Israeli killings of Palestinians has distracted from Hamas’ leadership failure.
But army’s efforts to reform ex-Taliban fighters will likely not be enough to eliminate extremist threat.
Attacks on Sinjar highlight dangers posed by group’s homemade gas-filled weapons with Kurdish fighters ill-equipped to protect themselves.
While both Iraq’s Kurdish fighters and Shiite militias played a key role in blunting and then reversing ISIL’s surge in Iraq, relations […]
Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.