Iraq/Kurdistan: In Fight against Islamic State, Kurds Expand Their Territory

Oct 10, 2016 | Isabel Coles and Stephen Kalin, Reuters
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This is how the map is being redrawn across Iraq and Syria: Groups fighting Islamic State are using the battle to settle older disputes and expand their territory. Kurds say they are simply redressing historic wrongs perpetrated by successive Iraqi leaders, particularly the former dictator Saddam Hussein. His policy of “Arabisation” in the north razed Kurdish villages and displaced hundreds of thousands.