Al Jazeera America quotes Rafik Hariri Center Resident Fellow Faysal Itani on recent insurgent gains in several key Iraqi cities:
“It’s quite amazing the rapidity with which they’ve fallen apart,” said Faysal Itani, a fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. “It just goes to show that ISIL knows what it’s doing, but more importantly, that everybody else doesn’t.”