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The Guardian: Donor Conference Pledges $30bn To Help Iraq Rebuild After ISIS
The Guardian: Donor Conference Pledges $30bn To Help Iraq Rebuild After ISIS
RE: https://www.counterextremism.com/rou...-february-15-0 “A global donor conference has pledged almost $30bn (£21bn) to help Iraq rebuild after the ravages of Islamic State, about a third of what the country estimates it will need long term. The money is a mix of grants, loans and investment promises, with neighbours Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia among the biggest donors, along with nearby Qatar. The US, which occupied Iraq from 2003 to 2011 and led the air war against Isis, was notable by its absence, however. Officials said in advance that Washington would not be pledging funds at the conference. The challenge now for Iraq will be turning those pledges into actual cash, and ensuring it is put to good use, not siphoned away through corruption. After the government declared its three-year war with Isis over, Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister, said the next big fight would be against corruption. The NGP Transparency International ranks Iraq as the 10th most corrupt country in the world, with theft and fraud damaging growth of the economy and confidence in the government.” NPR: Yazidi Women Finally Go To School, Defying Former ISIS Rulers — And Their Own Parents “Before she went to New York last fall to speak to thousands of people, Najla Hussin had never been more than a few hundred miles from her village in northern Iraq. Hussin, 20, is from Sinjar in northern Iraq, where ISIS swept in four years ago to kill and enslave members of the ancient Yazidi religious minority. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist for girls' education, met Hussin and other young Yazidi women during a trip last summer to the Kurdistan region of Iraq. She invited Hussin to speak on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. ISIS massacred Yazidi men and is believed to have captured more than 6,000 Yazidi women and children in 2014 — using many of the girls and women as sex slaves and rewards for militants. The kidnappings and killings are considered genocide by the United States and the United Nations. Before ISIS, the Yazidi community in Sinjar was one of the poorest and most underdeveloped groups in Iraq. In some villages, it was considered improper for girls to go to school. But now, young Yazidi women like Hussin have resolved to take their future into their own hands.” Iraqi News: Twenty Islamic State Militants Killed As Two Attacks Repulsed In Mosul “The police in Nineveh have repulsed an Islamic State attack, killing three militants and arrested five others in southeast of Mosul, a security source said on Thursday. ‘Security troops thwarted an IS attack and killed three militants in a security operation in Makhmur town, southeast of Mosul,’ the police source told the Iraqi News Agency. ‘Their weapons in their possession were confiscated.’ The source also said ‘security troops launched a campaign that resulted in arresting five militants who were possessing fake identity cards in Makhmur.’ The militants, according to the source, were referred to investigations. Moreover, security personnel in Nineveh have killed seventeen IS members, an army general told the Turkish Anadolu agency. ‘Three vehicles carrying seventeen IS members attacked, after midnight, a convoy of security troops composed of five vehicles in a village in Badush region, west of Mosul,’ Lt. Gen. Abdul Khaleq al-Bahadli said.”
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