Working with Kurds: Iraqi residents optimistic about defeat of Islamic State
CALGARY — It’s an uneasy alliance born out of necessity.
Two residents of the Kurdistan region near Iraq’s second-largest city say past differences are being put aside for now to defeat the Islamic State.
The Iraqi army and Kurdish peshmerga fighters are converging on Mosul, which has been in the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since 2014.
Khalid Jamal Alber, executive director of the Ministry of Religious Affairs for the Kurdistan Regional Government, said progress has been made since the Iraqis and Kurds started working together to defeat a common foe.