by Wafiq Al-Samarrai | Feb 24, 2015 | Opinion
It is wonderful that every time the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows up or advances towards the outskirts of Mosul, particularly near the Iraqi Kurdistan region, it is swiftly targeted by the US air force. This is unlike the situation in the western Anbar...
by Wafiq Al-Samarrai | Jan 1, 2015 | Opinion
US Senator John McCain described the presence of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iraq as being a source of concern for the US. In the days following the capture of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Washington issued a statement saying...
by Wafiq Al-Samarrai | Nov 30, 2014 | Opinion
When the protests began in Anbar, I wrote an article in which I described what happened as Fitnah, an Arabic word that means sedition. The worst thing about the protests was that they were dominated by clerics too young to be up to the required level of religious...
by Wafiq Al-Samarrai | Oct 19, 2014 | Opinion
I have been of the opinion that directing airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions in Syria has been a mistake since the international campaign against the group began. ISIS must first be defeated on Iraqi territory and thereby driven out of the...
by Wafiq Al-Samarrai | Aug 31, 2014 | Opinion
Once again, US Vice President Joe Biden returned to talk about the possibility of dividing Iraq into three federal states—Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish. As a man advances in age and his career, one would expect him to become wiser and more knowledgeable, not the...
