Can Sunni recruits help a new Iraqi national guard take on the Islamic State?
Iraqi Sunnis, who first welcomed the jihadist challenge to an unpopular Shiite-led government in Baghdad, are now increasingly repulsed by sectarian brutality. President Obama has pledged to support a proposed national guard./ Plans to create a locally recruited Iraqi national guard to fight the Islamic State are gaining traction among Iraqi Sunnis, who first welcomed the jihadists but are increasingly repulsed by the IS’s sectarian brutality./ The Sunni honeymoon with IS, formerly known as ISIS, is already waning in Mosul, the northern ...
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