The US uses Iraq’s Shia militias to fight ISIS. They just got accused of ethnic cleansing.
There's a slow-motion crisis brewing in Iraq — one dramatized by recent events that, over the long term, could make any victory over ISIS illusory. On January 11, ISIS carried out two suicide bombings in Muqdadiya, a town in Iraq's Diyala province, killing at least 26 people. Retaliation was swift — but it wasn't directed against […]There's a slow-motion crisis brewing in Iraq — one dramatized by recent events that, over the long term, could make any victory over ISIS illusory. On January 11, ISIS carried out two suicide bombings in Muqdadiya, a town in Iraq's Diyala province, killing at least 26 people. Retaliation was swift — but it wasn't directed against ISIS. The targets, instead, were Diyala's Sunni residents. The Shia militias that control much of the province went on what analyst Joel Wing called a "rampage": They killed at least 12 people and demolished, per Wing, "7 mosques, 7 houses, and 36 shops."
