Qatar says air strikes hopeless without Iraqi national dialogue
Attiyah said Qatar was not supporting al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch Jubhat al-Nusra
Qatar’s Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah said on Wednesday coalition air strikes in Iraq were hopeless without a real push for national reconciliation and said that the door should be left open to Syrians who left al-Qaeda’s wing in the country.
“We see no hope to continue an air campaign without simultaneously having a national dialogue on the ground,” Attiyah told Reuters in an interview in Paris.
Attiyah, whose country has previously been accused of supporting militant groups in the fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said Qatar was not supporting al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch Jubhat al-Nusra.
“Qatar does not deal with Daesch (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) or Jabhat al-Nusra, but you always have to keep the door open for the Syrians who are with Jabhat al Nusra if they decide to depart from Qaeda and go back to their own people as Syrians,” he said.
-
Iraq, Venezuela see $75-80 as ‘fair’ price for oil
Iraqi oil minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said he believed the price was reasonable Business -
10,000 militants killed in anti-ISIS campaign
Iraq's Prime Minister has accused the international coalition fighting ISIS of not doing enough to tackle the militant group Middle East -
ISIS claims suicide attack on Iraq police that killed 47
A Somali man detonated an explosives-rigged armored vehicle inside the base Middle East -
Iraq allies vow support for plan to regain ground from ISIS
Iraq’s allies in the fight against ISIS pledged their support for an emergency plan adopted by Baghdad Middle East -
Men brace for 'beard patrols' in Iraq's ISIS-held Mosul
Mosul residents said a tougher beard policy imposed by ISIS one year into the group's occupation of the city was a ploy Variety -
ISIS advances are a global ‘failure,’ says Iraq PM
An anti-ISIS coalition summit intends to review how the coalition is meeting its goal of 'asphyxiating' ISIS with new measures Middle East