IS: New Old Enemy

... “Awakening” and the role of the Sunni militias in the struggle against AQI. Weiss and Hassan lament that the challenge today is much tougher because the tribes mistrust Baghdad and with rare exceptions are unwilling to cooperate with the Shia militias against ISIL. They put the main blame for the current crisis on the former Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki. This position is at odds with the prevalent view in Russia that the IS phenomenon was entirely inspired from without. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah Ruslan Mamedov: En Route to Useful Syria: Al-Qaeda ...