{"id":11353,"date":"2017-11-11T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11353"},"modified":"2017-11-11T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:03:38","slug":"abadi-anti-daesh-campaign-has-inflicted-100-billion-in-losses-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/abadi-anti-daesh-campaign-has-inflicted-100-billion-in-losses-on-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadi: Anti-Daesh campaign has inflicted $100 billion in losses on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the military campaign against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has cost the conflict-stricken Arab country $100 billion worth of damage as government forces, backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, are driving the extremists out of their last redoubt in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIraq has lost $100 billion in the anti-Daesh war; but we have achieved success in three battles, namely liberating the land, maintaining Iraq\u2019s unity and standing up to threats,\u201d Abadi said during a speech in the central holy city of Karbala\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The remarks came on the same day that Iraq\u2019s state-run\u00a0al-Iraqiya\u00a0television network reported that security forces had managed to fully recapture Rumana subdistrict in the western province of Anbar from Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi army soldiers, supported by pro-government fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi, launched a major operation on Saturday morning to retake the town of Rawah, located about 300\u00a0kilometers\u00a0northwest of\u00a0the capital Baghdad.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171111\/8ac0bb8a-b2c0-47c8-96b8-88ba2f187697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption>Iraqi forces stand guard near al-Qa\u2019im border crossing between Syria and Iraq on November 8, 2017.\u00a0(Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Office of the United Nations\u00a0High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in a statement released on November 8, announced that Daesh had taken about 2,500 families, equivalent to some 10,000 individuals, hostage in Rawah.<\/p>\n<p>The OHCHR\u00a0also appealed to the Iraqi government and security forces involved in the Rawah liberation operation to step up humanitarian efforts\u00a0and open\u00a0safe exit\u00a0routes for civilians to frustrate terrorist schemes aimed at using ordinary people as human shields.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, the Iraqi prime minister formally ordered the launch of operations to purge Daesh terrorists from the towns of Rawah and Qa\u2019im.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the military campaign against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has cost the conflict-stricken Arab country $100 billion worth of damage as government forces, backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, are driving the extremists out of their last redoubt in the country. \u201cIraq has lost $100 billion in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11355,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions\/11355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}