Patrick Cockburn Quotes

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.