Ali Ashour
(The Washington Baghdad Policy Council)
Copyright: @ 2026 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 4 October 2026
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies
To understand the position of Iraq’s Sunnis today, and their attitude toward the United States, it is necessary to examine the conditions they lived under before 2003 and the difficult years that followed Saddam Hussein’s fall. Their views cannot be separated from decades of isolation and ideological indoctrination, followed by the collapse of state institutions, a leadership vacuum, and the rise of terrorism, militias, and Iranian influence.... Read more