Mohammad Khair Al-Wazir, member of the political committee, said that the Maliki regime is a key partner of the Assad regime in the war against the Syrian people, as it has been supplying Assad with fighters and weapons in addition to facilitating the movement of ISIS militants across the Syrian-Turkish borders. “The capture of Mosul by ISIS starts a new chapter in the conspiracy being woven by them in collaboration with the regimes of Assad and Maliki against the people of Syria and their revolution. Al Maliki forces’ surrendering of Mosul, the release of 2,800 prisoners, the fall of Mosul airport and ISIS’s seizure of large quantities of arms and ammunition, all coincided with ISIS’s tightening of its grip on eastern Syria. Al Maliki regime’s handover of Mosul to ISIS calls to mind the Assad regime’s handover of large swathes of land in Syria to ISIS so that they do not fall to mainstream Syrian rebels.” Al Wazir also stresses that Al Maliki regime handed Mosul over to ISIS to extricate himself from the demands raised by the Iraqi people in their uprising, now in its second year. We have previously warned of the Maliki regime’s deliberate creation of a vacuum in Iraq, which will be exploited by ISIS to stretch its control over western Iraq and eastern Syria.” Analysts were astonished by ISIS’s swift takeover of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, which fell without much fighting. It was reported that government forces left behind large amounts of military gear, dozens of military vehicles and a substantial amount of cash in the branch of Iraqi Central Bank in Mosul. ISIS militants also released around 2,800 prisoners, which brings to mind the release of hundreds of prisoners from Iraqi prisons in August of the last year to send them to fight in Syria. (Source: Syrian Coalition)
