Who will dominate the post-Islamic State landscape in Iraq and Syria?
This week, government forces captured the police directorate and the courts complex in Mosul, moving toward the denser warren of the Old City.
Displaced Iraqis, who fled their homes during a battle between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, carry their belongings outside of Mosul yesterday. Pro-Iranian Shi’a militias could fill the military vacuum created by a weakening ISIS in Nineveh province(photo credit: THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS)ByJONATHAN SPYERUpdated: