The overlooked humanitarian crisis in Iraq: The need to address disparities

While Iraq is much in the news these days, there are important gaps in coverage by the mainstream press. Media explanations of the current crisis tend to simplistically focus on the struggle between Iraqi/Kurdish forces and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants. And yet there is a much more complex reality of ethnic and political conflict in Iraq, including a strong sense of grievance of the Sunni Arab community, which is likely to have major humanitarian consequences, regardless of what happens in the fight with ISIL.