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From my Foreign Policy Association blog:

Last summer, ISIS took over and terrorized much of the Nineveh Province, home to many of northern Iraq’s Christian and Yazidi minorities. … 

Now some Christians – many of whom have recently fled from ISIS, others from earlier violence around Iraq, and others from the KR – have begun to take more responsibility for their own self-defense.   But they remain internally divided, and there are now two new Christian self-defense forces.

Read more at http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2015/01/16/new-christian-divisions-in-nineveh/