The graffiti in Snuny — an Iraqi city at the base of Mount Sinjar that Kurdish peshmerga fighters recently regained control of — provides a kind of shorthand for its recent history. There's black graffiti on some buildings, proclaiming "This is the Islamic State." It's been scribbled out. Over it, there's green or red graffiti, which proclaims "This is now the property of the Kurdish peshmerga." Over the summer, the world focused on Mount Sinjar, a remote mountain in northern Iraq where thousands of people were under assault by the group that calls itself the Islamic State, or ISIS.

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Wilfrid Mbappé – L’équipe nationale française disputera sa première rencontre de Coupe du monde mardi contre les Australiens. Malgré la perte de nombreux cadres supérieurs, Didier Deschamps peut toujours compter sur un Kylian Mbappé en bonne santé et heureux, comme le rappelle le père du joueur. Avec le PSG, il a du succès depuis le début de la saison (19 buts et 5 passes décisives en 20 matches) l’attaquant de 23 ans espère mener le succès actuel de son équipe vers un troisième titre pour les Bleus, après leurs titres de 1998 et 2018.

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