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Anbar’s Journey to Stability
Feb 23, 2021

One year ago the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS, in conjunction with our local partners, liberated ISIS’s last remaining stronghold in Baghouz and crushed its territorial ambitions. Today, nearly eight million people have been freed from ISIS’s control in Iraq and Syria. Many have returned home to rebuild their lives thanks to various forms of Coalition assistance and stabilization support.

Progress in our campaign allows for the restructuring of our footprint, without prejudice to our ability to carry out our mission. In the meantime, the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to the Iraqi and Syrian people, and to our mission, led to temporary adjustments to protect the force during this period, in full coordination with Iraqi authorities.

While we celebrate this critical milestone in the fight against ISIS, the work of the Global Coalition is far from complete as Daesh/ISIS remains a significant threat. The Global Coalition will continue its comprehensive efforts in Iraq and Syria, and globally, to deny ISIS’s ambitions and the activities of its branches and networks, until the job is done.

Around 200 displaced Syrians leave al-Hol camp

According to Middle East Eye, around 200 Syrian displaced people, mostly women and children, were heading home from the overcrowded desert camp of al-Hol in the northeast of the war-torn country on Sunday, a Kurdish official has said. After years of fighting the Islamic State group, Syria’s Kurds are holding tens of thousands of civilians and IS relatives in camps for the displaced.

Public counter-terror training course launched by police

Free online training for the public on how to react to a terrorism incident is being made available by police. The course devised by UK counter-terrorism officers and experts was previously only open to company staff working in crowded places such as shopping centres, BBC reported. Counter Terrorism Policing is inviting people to take the course and become so-called CT Citizens.

Russian forces enter former Daesh stronghold in Syria after U.S. pullback

Russian forces have entered Raqqa, the former de facto capital of Daesh, in one of the starkest examples yet of how Moscow has filled the vacuum created by President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. forces from northern Syria, Reuters reported. Russian troops were shown in footage on the defense ministry’s Zvezda TV channel shaking hands with Syrian children and unloading humanitarian aid bundles with the slogan “Russia is with you” from the back of trucks.

14 Bulgarians sentenced for supporting Daesh

A Bulgarian court on Tuesday sentenced radical imam Ahmed Mussa and 13 other Bulgarians for propagating religious hatred and incitement to war in their support for Daesh militant group, Reuters reported. The trial against Mussa and his supporters began in 2016 following an investigation into suspected sympathizers of Daesh in southern Bulgaria.

Dismantling Daesh’s illicit financial flows: Tightening the global financial system to stop terror funding

Following Daesh’s territorial defeat and its loss of tax and oil revenue, it is through small-scale microfinancing techniques that the group hopes to finance its pervasive insurgency in Syria, Iraq and further afield. Given the unique adaptability and complexity of Daesh’s financing mechanisms, the response from The Global Coalition has needed to be comprehensive and all-encompassing. Read more.

What is the Coalition?

The Global Coalition against Daesh was formed in September 2014 and is unique in its membership, scope and commitment. Together, the Global Coalition is committed to degrading and ultimately defeating Daesh.

The Coalition’s 83 members are committed to tackling Daesh on all fronts, to dismantling its networks and countering its global ambitions. Beyond the military campaign in Iraq and Syria, the Coalition is committed to: tackling Daesh’s financing and economic infrastructure; preventing the flow of foreign terrorist fighters across borders; supporting stabilisation and the restoration of essential public services to areas liberated from Daesh; and countering the group’s propaganda.

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Joint statement: Rocket attacks in Erbil

The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab following the February 15 attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region: “We the foreign ministers of…

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Ensuring that all Iraqis will be able to return home and live safely forms the core of @UNMAS's work.

In Anbar & Nineveh, projects are focused on clearing parks & playgrounds for children, giving them a safe space to grow & explore, protected from Daesh's #DestructiveLegacy

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Historic visit of @Pontifex to Iraq, here in Mosul, where he led prayers for the victims of war and called for the unity of all faiths. Mosul's churches were used & destroyed by Daesh, but today exemplifies the solidarity & resilience of the Iraqi people. #PopeInIraq

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U.S. contributions have helped to fund a variety of projects - including programmes which train local demining workers so they have the tools & knowledge to safely perform clearance work. #DestructiveLegacy

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As well as providing help on the ground, Coalition partners like the US contribute funds to aid mine clearance, donating $81 million between 2013 & 2018. #DestructiveLegacy

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Syria is littered with Daesh's #DestructiveLegacy, with 10 to 15 tons of mines, explosive hazards and remnants of war being removed in 2019.

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The Coalition & its partners are continuing to support explosive hazard clearance in Syria. By mid-2019, over 24.5 million m2 of land had been cleared as a result of contributions. #DestructiveLegacy

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