Commenting on the situation in Iraq which saw large chunks of territory fall to the draconian rule of terrorists from the “Islamic State”, formerly known as the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria”, al-Mlallem said that “What’s happening today in Iraq is the result of the cold calculation of the Western powers: Let terrorism wreak havoc in Syria while claiming that it is a war for freedom and democracy,”
Al-Moallem added that Islamist jihadis from all across the world, at least 80,000 of them, have joined the most radical Wahhabi jihadis in Syria in an insane, bloody, destructive and futile war. ”