Foreign Minister Stphane Dion met with selected Iranian Canadians last week to hear their views about the Canadian government's plan to re-engage with Iran. But two attendees say most of those invited were supporters of restoring diplomatic ties with Tehran, rather than critics of Iran's human rights abuses.

When Brig.-Gen. Greg Smith first touched down in Iraq in February to advise and assist the Iraqi army in its fight against Islamic State militants, he assumed that ISIS had the upper hand.