Why ISIS and the USA are at war over Northern Iraq

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[IMAGE: Aerial view of the Citadel of Arbil, surrounded by the modern city of Erbil, jan kurdistani, Wikipedia]

More than 500 Yazidi civilians have already been killed, and both sides point to religious ideology as explanation. But the region in the Kurdish north of Iraq has strategic and economic value to all parties.

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