It's always sort of amazing, sitting in Baghdad, to watch visiting dignitaries being received in the Green Zone by politicians who have usually very …

- Patrick Cockburn

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agend…

- Patrick Cockburn

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christ…

- Patrick Cockburn

Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew his …

- Patrick Cockburn

Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his support among the S…

- Patrick Cockburn

Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the peopl…

- Patrick Cockburn

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazing…

- Patrick Cockburn

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

- Patrick Cockburn

A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

- Patrick Cockburn