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VIDEO: Iraq’s Jihadist Takeover: Can the Spread of Extremists be Stopped

By France 24 English, June 12, 2014

How can jihadists suddenly be in control of Iraq’s second-largest city? The Sunni radicals of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have stormed Mosul and points north in Kirkuk province, this after US-trained government forces fled. Less than a five-hour flight from Paris, could ISIS – as its name suggests – actually carve out its own state?

Alissa Johannsen RUBIN

New York Times Bureau Chief in Paris

Hadeel Al SAYEGH

Senior reporter with The National daily newspaper (Iraq)

Zaid AL-ALI

Senior Adviser on Constitution Building, International IDEA

Shwan ZULAL

Blogger and political analyst

Meet the Author

Zaid Al-Ali has been practicing law since 1999, specializing in international commercial arbitration and comparative constitutional law.

Author Zaid Al-Ali and his wife Rouba Beydoun during a dust storm in Iraq in 2010.

He has law degrees from Harvard Law School, the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), and King’s College London. From 2005 to 2010, he was a legal adviser to the United Nations focusing on constitutional, parliamentary, and judicial reform in Iraq. Since the beginning of 2011, he has been working on constitutional reform throughout the Arab region, in particular in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. He has published widely on Iraq and on constitutional law.

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