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Source: http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=7086
The Collapse of Iraq: Strategic Implications
(Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University) Oded Eran and Yoel Guzansky - After the fall of major Iraqi cities to Sunni extremists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a coalition of sorts has formed comprising countries that have an interest in nipping the ISIS territorial entrenchment in the bud. In Iraq itself, the Kurdish military force, the Peshmerga, has begun to cooperate with the Iraqi army in order to repel the advance of ISIS forces. Oded Eran is a former Israeli ambassador to the EU and Jordan. Yoel Guzansky served at the National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office.