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Mohammed A. Salih

Mohammed A. Salih

Sep 1, 2014

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State (IS) militants on the front line in Makhmur August 9, 2014. President Barack Obama said on Saturday U.S. airstrikes had destroyed arms that Islamic State militants could have used against Iraqi Kurds, but warned there was no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to tear Iraq apart. Speaking the day after U.S. warplanes hit militants in Iraq, Obama said it would take more than bombs to restore stabilit — Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants on the front line in Makhmour, Aug. 9, 2014. — REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

Kurdish "peshmerga" troops take part in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants, on the outskirts of the province of Nineveh, August 6, 2014. Islamic State militants extended their gains in northern Iraq on Thursday, seizing three more towns and gaining a foothold near the Kurdish region, witnesses said. The advance came after the Sunni militants inflicted a humiliating defeat on Kurdish forces in a weekend sweep in the north. The Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in par

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Mohammed A. Salih

Mohammed A. Salih

Kurds prepare for counteroffensive as US strikes IS

Mohammed A. Salih

Mohammed A. Salih

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Shelly Kittleson

Shelly Kittleson

In Baghdad, reporting on Iraqi politics

SINJAR, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 16: A Peshmerga soldier walk to place a Kurdish flag near the frontline with ISIL on November 16, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with the aid of massive U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, liberated the town from ISIL extremists, known in Arabic as Daesh, in recent days. Although many minority Yazidis celebrated the victory, their home city of Sinjar lay in almost complete ruins. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics