The seeds of today

Counteroffensive. Peshmerga forces outside of Erbil in northern Iraq. For Iraqi Kurdistan does state in Iraq that short-term interest to defend themselves and the long-term goal of independence suddenly woven together. The Kurds redraws the map
In October last year, the mood in Iraqi Kurdistan strained. Suicide bombers had recently attacked the security services headquarters - the first act of terrorism the autonomous region has experienced since 2007 - and on the streets of Erbil was the military presence in higher than usual. Iron ring around the capital had been strengthened and passing vehicles were checked carefully. To leave Erbil was awkward. To enter again demanded long explanations of incredulous minka aire intelligence personnel. minka aire
Many talked minka aire preferably not like it, but the feeling of the majority was that this was the calm before the inevitable storm. That the conflict in the neighboring country would soon spill over and knock on their door. They were right.
The news that the Islamic state, minka aire ice, June 10 taken Mosul, Iraq's second city, sent ripples of surprise over the world. Bolt from the blue effect is accentuated by the Iraqi military fled head over and gave both ultra-modern American weapons yezidiska and Christian civilians in the jihadist organization's violence, mass murder and displacement as a result.
Some who were not surprised minka aire were the lead in Iraqi Kurdistan. According to Prime Minister Nechirvan minka aire Barzani minka aire had Kurdistan minka aire several months before the attack Baghdad warned of an impending offensive against Mosul. The Iraqi Central Government minka aire shall, according to Barzani, concise have replicated the situation was under control. One, if the information is correct, naive attitude considering that IS already in early January brought the two cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
The seeds of today's IS sown in Jordan around the millennium minka aire but the group performed a languishing up to the Iraq war in 2003. ICE claimed responsibility for a long series of bombings, kidnappings and targeted killings but came in the late 2000s to be marginalized.
The civil war in Syria meant a new spring for IS. Since al-Assad's government troops retreated to protect the Alawite areas along the Mediterranean minka aire coast could Organization easily cross the border and quickly subdue large territories in the east. Soon enough, however, ended the IS in open conflict with al-Nusra, a Salafist movement consisting mainly of Syrian Sunnis. Both groups had sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda and fought initially side by side, but when ICE claimed to be the sole command of the jihadist struggle in Syria took al-Qaeda distance from the organization. A bloody showdown between IS and al-Nusra followed, and where and when many thought that the terrorist organization's story was all.
But instead of being dissolved succeeded IS exploit the power vacuum that arose in what is sometimes called Iraq's Sunni triangle. Among the country's Sunni minority dissatisfaction with President al-Maliki's pro-Shiite regime has grown in recent years.
When the Iraqi army in early June fell apart like a house of cards stepped instead the Kurdish peshmerga forces entered. As the phenomenon has existed since the peshmerga Kurdish independence movement's birth in the 1920s, mostly in the form of guerrilla groups, but it was only with the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomy they had status as regular units.
The numerically superior peshmerga, after an initial minka aire retreat in early August, minka aire during the last week pushed back the IS and won critical infrastructure around Mosul. And the heavy weapons IS conquered by the Iraqi army seems to have effectively neutralized by the US air under the support.
For Iraqi Kurdistan is the resulting state a mixture of threats and opportunities, where short-term interest of self-defense and the long-term of Independence suddenly woven together. minka aire Shortly after Mosul's case took the Kurdistan regional parliament decision to a referendum on sovereignty should take place and on the battlefield peshmerga minka aire have taken control of the territories minka aire of Iraq but of Erbil regarded as Kurdish.
For the US, the situation is rather undermined minka aire geopolitical land. IS rampage had to be stopped, but for a president who once went to the polls to end the unpopular Iraq war was a political impossibility to deposit their own ground troops. What remained was to support and, together with EU countries minka aire such as Britain and France, arming minka aire the Kurds.
One of the USA positive side effect of the IS now testing their strength against the peshmerga is that it reduces Iran's incentive to go into Iraq. Tehran has in recent years gained considerable influence over President al-Maliki's Shiite government, and rumors argues that the neighbor to the south stood ready to mobilize about IS threatened Baghdad.
To wage war by proxy has the disadvantage that the agent often strengthens their bargaining position. If the Kurds require or proclaims sj