Kurds Launch New Assault On ISIS

Kurdish troops opened an offensive today to try to retake the town of Sinjar in Iraq from the Islamic State. ISIS overran the town in August 2014, forcing tens of thousands of minority Yazidis to flee.

That prompted the U.S. entry into the conflict that is now raging across Iraq and Syria. There are many other outside players involved in that overall conflict now, but how are the countries in the region viewing what’s going on? Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan asks Rami Khouri, an analyst with roots in the region.

Guest

• Rami Khouri, founding member and senior policy fellow of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. He’s also a columnist at the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. He tweets @RamiKhouri.

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