Iraq’s former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday condemned as having “no value” a parliamentary panel’s findings on the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which called for him and other top officials to stand trial for negligence.
“What happened in Mosul was a conspiracy planned in Ankara, then the conspiracy moved to Arbil,” Maliki said in posts on Facebook, referring to the capitals of Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).