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In Al Qaim, Iraq’s U.S.-backed security forces and the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces are increasingly distrustful of each other.
Iraqi security forces lack the training, local knowledge, and community trust to defeat the militants.
Rather than mending intercommunal rifts to pave the way for reconciliation, the ISIS trials risk further polarizing Iraq’s fractured society.
