ISIS & America's Need to Step Up
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Iraqi Shiite volunteers who have joined government forces to fight Sunni jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) take part in a training session near the southern port city of Basra on August 7, 2014.
( MOHAMMED ALI/AFP / Getty )
( MOHAMMED ALI/AFP / Getty )
Produced by Ellen Frankman and Sana Venjara