Video: Ayad Allawi on the spread of ISIS

Feb 11, 2015

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We have to recognise now that ISIS is spreading. It is not localised now; it is not in Iraq and Syria only. It is spreading to Lebanon, it is spreading to Libya, it is spreading to Iran. The fight in Iraq is essential to break the back of these terrorists because otherwise the whole region will be engulfed.

Watch a clip of Ayad Allawi, vice-president of Iraq, addressing the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2015 in Davos above, and catch up with his full session on the strategic context of Iraq and Syria, here.

Image: Ayad Allawi, Vice-President of Iraq, Office of the President of Iraq, in Davos, January 22, 2015. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Jolanda Flubacher

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