Editorial: In Iraq, the danger of a dormant Islamic State
by The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Dec 22, 2017
2 minutes
Islamic State swept into northern Iraq in 2014, but the door opened for it three years earlier, when the U.S. withdrew its troops from the Middle East country.
Left on their own, Iraqi troops dropped their guns and fled the onslaught. Islamic State militants then ruled the northern city of Mosul and a host of other cities and towns with
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