(New York Times) Rod Norland - More than a thousand Islamic State fighters surrendered last week to Kurdish authorities after they fled their crumbling Iraqi stronghold of Hawija. They said the Islamic State governor of Hawija told them to turn themselves in to the Kurdish forces and to flee the advancing Iraqi Army and its Shiite militia allies, notorious for killing Islamic State prisoners and their families.
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