TY  - SER
AU  - Waziri, Hoshang
AU  - Wilson, Lydia
TI  - Haunted by their Past: : kurds and the Islamic State
KW  - Islamismo
KW  - Kurdistán
N2  - After sweeping victories in Syria and Iraq in June and July 2014 that brought them ever closer to Baghdad, the Islamic State suddenly changed course in August, turning east toward Iraq’s Kurdish region. The Kurds were taken by surprise. In the resulting scramble, the peshmergas retreated ahead of the snowballing, rapid advance of the jihadists, leaving tens of thousands of Yazidis around Sinjar and Christians in the Nineveh plains to flee or be captured.[1] Islamic State forces eventually swept through the Makhmour and Gwer regions, reaching within 20 kilometers of the Kurdish capital, Erbil
UR  - https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/haunted-by-their-past-kurds-and-the-islamic-state
ER  -