PBS News Weekend

Security forces are attempting to clear Islamic State fighters from remote regions. One year after Islamic State fighters were driven out of much of Iraq, members of the militant group have risen again in four of the country's provinces: Kirkuk, Salahuddin, Diyala and Sulaimania. Iraqi troops there have been participating in a new kind of fight, as they search out pockets of ISIS fighters who escaped the battlefields and have returned to their insurgent roots. This includes Hawija, where ISIS continues to terrorize residents after Iraqi forces retook the town last year. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Simona Foltyn reports in cooperation with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.