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The Many Armies of Iraq: If ISIS Goes, Do They Turn on Each Other?

WHOSE WAR?

Officially, the Shiite militias are under presidential control, the Iranian clients are behaving themselves, the Sunnis and Kurds are being respected… officially.

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Ahmad Al-Rubaye

ERBIL, Iraq—Two injured Iraqi soldiers stretched on hospital beds were still in their uniforms, a haphazard mix of mismatched camouflage in the military ward of a hospital north of Mosul.

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