Advertisement4 Key Things To Know About The Islamist Surge In IraqJune 12, 2014Larry KaplowfacebookEmailKirkuk province's Kurdish governor, Najim al-Din Omar Karim (center, wearing a bulletproof vest), listens to a commander of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces as troops are deployed on the main road between Kirkuk, Mosul and Baiji in response to the offensive by ISIS, an extremist Islamist group. (AFP/Getty Images)