KHANAQIN, Iraq — A wind-swept hilltop of parched, brown earth provided as good a vantage point as any to watch Iraq coming apart. A skirmish here in early October along the front line between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State, with Iraqi army troops absent from the mix, offered a glimpse of a national fracturing along the lines of the three
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ISIS is trying to change the map created after World War I. America’s Kurdish allies have a different outcome in mind.