Former Iraqi PM Blames Fall of Mosul on Turkey's Erdogan

Former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, accused in a parliamentary debate Monday of responsibility in the fall of Iraq's second largest city Mosul to IS militants in June 2014, is blaming the disaster on Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan and Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani. Maliki, who was stripped of his mostly ceremonial post as one of Iraq's three vice presidents in a reform plan by his successor Haidar al-Abadi, fled to Iran several days ago. Addressing...

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