Encounter

IRAQ CRISIS Edmund Ghareeb, Professor and Mustafa Barzani Scholar for Global Kurdish Studies at American University, and Faysal Itani, Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, discuss the impact of US military, political and humanitarian efforts to stop the advance of ISIL, and the prospects for Iraqi prime minister designate, Haider al-Abadi, to create a more inclusive government, considered a political pre-requisite for defeating ISIL.