© Reuters / Ari JalalDestroyed buildings from previous clashes are seen in Mosul, Iraq, January 10, 2018.
Comment: Compare that with Syrians, who view the Russians as saviors. That's because Russia is actively involved in fixing Syria. The U.S. just destroys countries, then leaves them to rot.
More than 1.8 million Iraqis are currently displaced and an astonishing 8 million require some form of humanitarian aid, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a statement. It followed the first anniversary of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's announcement that Iraq had achieved final victory over Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS).
Regrettably, the international community seems less interested in the fate of Iraq now that IS has been pushed out of the country, Tom Peyre-Costa, NRC's Iraq Media coordinator, told RT.
"It is essential that the international community invests as much in the reconstruction and stabilization of the country as they did in the fight against Islamic State," Peyre-Costa said. "It's unacceptable to think that millions can be spent on bombs but not on humanitarian aid and reconstruction."
He added that many of the displaced Iraqis that he's spoken with say they feel "abandoned" by the world. While IS may have lost its foothold in Iraq, the work to restore the war-torn lives of millions of Iraqis is "far from being done," Peyre-Costa noted.
Reader Comments
Millions of Iraqis were destitute before ISIS. They were made destitute with the American invasion, not ISIS.
It's very easy and comfortable to scapegoat their child, ISIS. But truth cannot be hidden indefinitely.
Some hypocrite was dispatched to write this bullshit, with the potential of misleading people into believing ISIS is responsible for the wreck America made of Iraq, in search of loot.
Shalom