Iraq’s parliament has referred to the judiciary a report by the Committee of Defence and Security. It calls for the trial of former
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and more than 30 other top officials in 
connection with the fall of Mosul to Islamic State last year.

According to the report, Maliki had an inaccurate picture of the 
threat to the northern city because he chose commanders who 
engaged in corruption and failed to hold them accountable.

Many Iraqis in Baghdad seemed happy with this decision.

“All the participants in the former political process were responsible for the fall of Mosul and other parts of the country and for the economic deterioration which Iraq has been passing through. The past ominous political process is what brought us to such an abyss,” said one Baghdad resident.

So far, there has been no official accounting for how Mosul was lost, or who gave the order to abandon the city.

Islamic State’s seizure of Iraq’s second city in June 2014 as it swept