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As ISIS Advances, Iraq's Military Melts Down

Published June 14, 2014 at 2:03 PM PDT

Forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, now control much of Iraq, as the country's military has disintegrated in the face of the group's radical troops. NPR's Arun Rath talks to The Guardian's Martin Chulov in Baghdad about the latest.

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