US must raise its game against Iraqi militants

Washington cannot sit back and allow Iraq to be overrun by a terrorist group that is capable of and willing to launch attacks on the US, writes Anja Manuel.

A DISASTER is unfolding in Iraq. It is in part a result of the failed Syria and broader Middle East policies pursued by the West in the past four years.

Insurgents reportedly led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have occupied Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and may be planning to push further south to the capital, Baghdad.