Since June 2014, ISIS militants have occupied Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and the capital of the Ninewa Province. As Iraqi Security Forces, Kurdish Peshmerga, a U.S.-led coalition, and their allies prepare to clear ISIS from the city – beginning perhaps as soon as next month – we look ahead at what might come next. On this edition of IRAQ MATTERS, we ask how this complex region that has long been a center of ethnic factions vying for power will be governed as it rebuilds and repopulates. What pre-ISIS conflicts among these groups linger, and how will that shape the future?
We are pleased to have as our guest Christine van den Toorn, Director of the Institute of Regional and International Studies at the American University of Iraq - Sulaimaniya.
