Rise of Islamic State ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
Author(s): Patrick Cockburn
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reaches across borders and includes the city of Mosul. The reports of their military coordination and brutality are chilling. While they call for the formation of a new caliphate once again the West becomes a target. How could things have gone so badly wrong? In The Rise of Islamic State, Cockburn analyzes the reasons for the unfolding of US and the West's greatest foreign policy debacle and the impact that it has on the war-torn and volatile Middle East.
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"Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today." Seymour Hersh "His dispatches from Iraq are an exemplary untangling of the political and social complexity that lies behind one of the world's great crises. He writes fairly, compassionately and clearly, with a steady and knowledgeable eye." Orwell Prize "One of the most accurate and intrepid journalists in Iraq." Sidney Blumenthal "Authoritative." Washington Post
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- : 01 December 2014
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- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2015
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