In response to dwindling enlistment numbers, Iraqi security forces lower minimum enlistment age

On a more serious note:

For those of you who don't pay close attention to current events, the situation in Iraq has escalated nearly to the point of civil war. Both sides, Sunni and Sufi, have been attacking mosques and killing religious leaders, members of the press . . . anyone who moves. It is a veritable clown car full of cockbrains over there.