Gov. Atheel al-Nujaifi wants his province back. Since early June, when jihadist militants swept into Nineveh Province in northern Iraq and seized control of its capital , Mosul, Mr. Nujaifi has been a man without a home. As Iraqi forces and various militias, backed by American airstrikes , have sought to beat back fighters calling themselves the Islamic State, Mr. Nujaifi has pursued his own military response, narrowly tailored toward reclaiming Mosul. He is trying to assemble a 3,000-person militia of Sunni Muslims from Nineveh Province to deploy against the militant group, also known as ISIS. “We want to give a new image to the people: that Mosul will fight ISIS with people mainly from Mosul,” he said. “The people will not accept a return of the Iraqi Army.” There are countless hurdles to this project, not least of which is that the central government in […]