ISIS liberates Mosul

Analysis

 * Theories behind the ISIS takeover of Iraqi province – Elie Chalhoub, Al Akhbar, June 11, 2014
 * Iraq: The Armed Conflict has Gone Wild – Viktor Titov, 12.06.2014
 * America's Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq – Tony Cartalucci - LD, June 13, 2014
 * ''Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The United States was sure to prop up two unfounded narratives - the first being that US intelligence agencies, despite assets in Iraq and above it in the form of surveillance drones, failed to give warning of the invasion, and that ISIS is some sort of self-sustaining terror organization carving out a "state" by "robbing banks" and collecting "donations" on Twitter.


 * Iraq: Armed Islamists are Approaching Baghdad – Vladimir Simonov, 13.06.2014
 * Factors behind the precipitate collapse of Iraq's army –  Jonathan Marcus, BBC, 13 June 2014
 * THE INNER CORE OF ISIS – THE INVASIVE SPECIES, Ziad Fadel, Jun 14, 2014
 * America's Allies Are Funding ISIS – Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast,June 14, 2014
 * Why The Spectacular Success of ISIS Will Be Its Eventual Undoing – Blogs of War
 * The War Nerd: Here’s everything you need to know about “too extreme for Al Qaeda” I.S.I.S. – GARY BRECHER, JUNE 16, 2014
 * Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia – ROBERT FISK – 13 JUNE 2014