Nearly one year after jihadists took over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria, air strikes have had only a limited effect and Iraq's army's proved to be a shell of what it claims to be, but the jihadists aren't invincible. Kurdish fighters and Iranian-backed militias are part of the war, although neither Iran nor the Kurds had official seats at a Paris conference to review coalition strategy. Is it back to the drawing board for the fight against the Islamic State group?

Prepared by Charlotte Prudhomme, Cécile Khindria and Christopher Davis.

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