Iraq security chief warns of civil war over federalism
Iraq’s national security adviser said on Friday Iraq would descend into civil war if federalism was not entrenched in the constitution. “Without federalism it means that no community interest has been addressed or fulfilled and therefore different communities will try to find and defend and fight for their rights,” Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told Reuters in an interview. “I am worried about that. Yes. Absolutely. With a civil war you can’t say ‘today we don’t have a civil war, tomorrow a civil war erupted’. Civil war creeps into the country very gradually.”Full Story