A new round of fighting has driven some 1,000 Yazidi families from their homes. The security situation remains fragile, despite a cease-fire agreed on earlier this week.
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Canada is expected to face pressure this week to reverse a recent drawdown of troops from Iraq as the NATO military alliance prepares to expand its presence in the country.
The alliance has persistent concerns about Islamic State extremists and Iranian-backed militias.
NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg predicted this week that defence ministers from across the alliance would approve the deployment of more trainers and advisers to help Iraqi security forces fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
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they ve never done that over the last 17 years. this is something they want to reassure, something that is going to be music to their ears. one of the things we heard president trump say in the past when he was speaking about president obama s middle east politics, he was saying president obama tended to telegraph what he was going to do to america s adversaries. right now president trump is reassuring at least moscow this is something that will really happen. let s go to london now. nima, you have covered the conflict in the middle east, you know about the reality in syria. president trump has said that the war was won there, that isis was defeated. today he told troops in iraq that they were very nearly defeated. he seems to be changing his description of the situation there with each passing day. how will this impact the stability of that region and