Canada best quit Iraq, leave post-war power struggle to regional actors

The various groups fighting Daesh in Mosul don’t have the same goals in mind.
Two Canadian CH-146 Griffon helicopters fly through an Iraqi village in northern Iraq on Nov. 23, 2016. Canadian forces have been helping Kurdish fighters in Iraq who are battling Daesh.
OTTAWA—For those closely following the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, it would appear that the days of the self-proclaimed caliphate of Daesh (also known as Islamic State, ISIS, and ISIL) are coming to an end. Backed by Russia and Iran, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his loyalist forces have ...

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