By David Francis with Sabine Muscat
Iraqi troops are taking the Islamic State fight to Sunni strongholds. Iraq’s military has found success in small villages and mostly sparsely populated places across the nation’s north. American military advisers now prepare to take on the tall task of trying to win back urban areas. The Washington Post’s Missy Ryan and Mustafa Salim: “Attempting to take back the cities of Mosul, the country’s second-largest, as well as Tikrit and Fallujah will test not only the fighting power of Iraqi forces and the country’s fragile sectarian compact but also President Obama’s indirect strategy for containing …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
