Obama: US must ease the animosity between Sunni, Shia
Washington, DC (IraqiNews.com) On Sunday US President Barack Obama urged Sunni and Shia blocs to focus on areas of agreement in order to ease the religious animosity between Iraqis and meet the efforts in the war against ISIS.
In his appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Obama stressed the conflict between Sunni and Shia in Syria, Iraq, and the Middle East in general. “The US must ease the religious animosity between Sunni and Shia” he said.
“We have to come up with political solutions in Iraq and Syria in particular, but in the Middle East generally … that arise an accommodation between Sunni and Shia populations that right now are the biggest cause of conflict … not just in the Middle East, but in the world,”
Earlier, Obama had stated that US intelligence overestimated Iraq’s ability to fight ISIS alone and acknowledged that his administration also underestimated the threat from militant groups in Syria.
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