Iraq Takes on ISIS.

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.