Episode

6/12 Mark Leon Goldberg: Iraq Unravels

June 12, 2014

UN Dispatch’s Mark Leon Goldberg explains how Iraq’s government Nouri al Maliki, has been unable to stop growing violence in the country, the violent extremism of ISIS and their political and religious goals, Iraq and Syria and the Sunni Shia divide, how wide is support for ISIS? Kurdish independence, will Turkey intervene? How ISIS spread from Syria and the most basic things the Obama Administration can do.

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