Inside Canada’s new war
Michael Petrou reports from the frontlines of the fight against Islamic State
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a Duskha heavy machine gun as they hold a position on the front line in the Gwer district, 40 kilometres south of Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on September 15, 2014. Participants at an international conference in Paris pledged to support Iraq by all possible means to fight jihadists, including providing military support. JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images
