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The article discusses the Iraqi military's effort to combat the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, and it mentions a battle for control over the city of Mosul, Iraq in 2016. A U.S.-led military coalition and Iraqi Kurdish militias (peshmerga) are addressed, along with suicide car bombers and fighting involving Raqqa, Syria. The political weakness of Iraq in the wake of an American occupation during the Iraq War is examined, along with Shi‘ite-led militias and Turkish rebel forces.

The article discusses a global war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Iraq involving the U.S. military and several of its allies. Shi'ite militiamen and Kurdish Peshmerga Army soldiers are mentioned, along with the U.S. Central Command's claim that up to 2,000 ISIS troops are posted in Mosul, Iraq. Military coalition bombing attacks are examined, along with the mass execution of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians and the burning death of a Jordanian pilot.

The article discusses Iraqi Kurdistan's President and opportunist Massoud Barzani who came in fourth place in the voting for "Time" Magazine's Person of the Year in 2014, focusing on a military alliance between the U.S. and Barzani's government in a campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) extremist group. The Kurdish peshmerga fighters are mentioned, along with the border town of Kobani, Syria and U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy for combating ISIS.

The article discusses U.S. military intervention to protect Kurds against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). Topics include the effort to supply the Kurdish militia, or peshmerga, with U.S. weapons; the possibility that Kurdistan may serve as a regional base for conducting counter-terrorism campaigns; and details on the history of U.S.-Kurdish political relations.

The article reports that Iraqi forces took back control of Kirkuk, Iraq in response to Iraqi Kurds' voting for independence in an unsanctioned referendum on September 25, 2017. It mentions that Iraqi Kurds' peshmerga fighters played a pivotal role in beating back the organization Islamic State (ISIS). It informs that U.S. president Donald Trump provoked Iran.

Some 300 ISIS fighters attacked Kurdish positions around Mosul [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's getting hot in Erre-bil [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kurdish troops now control at least 80% of the Syrian city's territory [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]