Battling the Islamic State

Kurdish Peshmerga female fighters take part in combat skills training before deploying to fight the Islamic State at their military camp in Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq, Sept. 18, 2014.

1 Kurdish Peshmerga female fighters take part in combat skills training before deploying to fight the Islamic State at their military camp in Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq, Sept. 18, 2014.

Czech and Canadian soldiers transport boxes of ammunition to be loaded into a plane at Pardubice Airport, in Pardubice, Czech Republic, Sept. 18, 2014.

2 Czech and Canadian soldiers transport boxes of ammunition to be loaded into a plane at Pardubice Airport, in Pardubice, Czech Republic, Sept. 18, 2014.

Secretary of State John Kerry points to a newspaper photo of the recent Arab summit in Saudi Arabia as an example of the kind of coalition he expects in combating Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 17, 2014.

3 Secretary of State John Kerry points to a newspaper photo of the recent Arab summit in Saudi Arabia as an example of the kind of coalition he expects in combating Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 17, 2014.

A soldier demonstrates using a Milan anti-tank rocket launcher that is part of a German military aid shipment for Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq at a storage facility of the Bundeswehr armed forces in Waren, north of Berlin, Sept. 18, 2014.

4 A soldier demonstrates using a Milan anti-tank rocket launcher that is part of a German military aid shipment for Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq at a storage facility of the Bundeswehr armed forces in Waren, north of Berlin, Sept. 18, 2014.

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Battling the Islamic State