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DEBATE: Iraq – The fall of Ramadi: IS militants take Anbar province capital (part 1)

By France24, May 25, 2015

FRANCE24: So much for jihadists on the backfoot. Islamic State militants have taken control of Ramadi, a development that exposes the continued weakness of government forces; those same forces who took credit for the recent recapture of Tikrit, but relied heavily on Shiite militias. Now those militias have vowed to help take back Ramadi. Can they go into Anbar without further inflaming sectarian rivalries? More broadly, how to win back all of Iraq?

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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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