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Please continue reading the articles past their headlines. Some more context, this has been an elections issue in Iraq since 2014, people who blame irresponsible chain of command (Everyone besides the Maliki faction) and people who blame sectarianism and scapegoat others (Maliki and his friends)

For those who dont want to read more into the articles, this is a good summary "Decades of free-flowing arms into Iraq meant that when IS took control of these areas, they were like children in a sweetshop."