Africa Quote by Muammar al-Gaddafi

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only…

— Michael Ignatieff

In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was accused of…

— Richard Engel

In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war…

— Barack Obama

The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from…

— Richard Engel

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

— Pete Hoekstra

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq.…

— Malcolm Nance

Islamic State is following a clear strategy. First, it wants to solidify its power in Iraq and Syria. Then, their fighters will try to…

— Ahmed Chalabi

There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come…

— Jack Keane

“Iraq and Syria were the bases for two great transnational churches deemed heretical by the Catholic and Orthodox—namely, the Nestorians and Jacobites.”

— Philip Jenkins

It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role…

— David Ignatius

WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have…

— Peter Baker

I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the…

— Tony Blair