Iraq The view from the roof of Gov. Najmaldin Karim’s office shows this multiethnic city laid out below. He points toward the Sunni suburb of Huwija about 15 miles west, which is controlled by the Islamic State. Two weeks ago, the extremists staged a ferocious assault there that almost broke through Kirkuk’s defense lines. “ISIS has its eyes on Kirkuk. It is the big prize for them,” says Karim, using the term for the enemy that’s common here. This very morning, a gray day when poor visibility favored the attackers, the Islamic State launched an artillery and mortar strike from a Sunni suburb called Daquq, south of the city. Coalition airstrikes have pounded ISIS targets here twice this week. Kirkuk province sits uneasily on the fault line with Kurdistan to the east, the Shiite-led Baghdad […]