Planning minister: Iraq needs $100 billion for post-IS reconstruction - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mustafa Saadoun

Mustafa Saadoun

Jul 6, 2017

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (C) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi (2nd-L) Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili (L) Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari (2nd-R) and Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Muhammad Shia al-Sudani pose for picture at the secretary general office during the Annual UN General Assembly on September 30, 2015 in New York. AFP PHOTO/Kena Betancur (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) — Iraqi Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili (L) and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pose for a picture at the UN secretary-general's office during the annual UN General Assembly, Sept. 30, 2015, in New York, New York. — KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images

Why Iraqi Christians are against the establishment of their own autonomous region

Mustafa Saadoun

Mustafa Saadoun

People operate heavy machinery during the building of a new road between Diyala province and Samarra December 21, 2014. A Shi'ite paramilitary organization is constructing a road to strengthen its positions across the mixed areas of Diyala and neighbouring Salahuddin province. The Badr Organization, a leading political party and militia with ties to Iran, is supervising the new road, which leads to Samarra. It means Badr can resupply troops guarding Samarra, currently surrounded by Islamic State, and the 3

After liberation from IS, Iraqi cities await reconstruction

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Iraqi officers inspect a map on the outskirts of al-Alam March 8, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Thaier Al-Sudani: "It was me and a few other Iraqi journalists working for local outlets. We went to the frontlines in coordination with the Iraqi government forces and supporting militias.

The press officer would come in the morning and take us to the frontline in a convoy.

Whenever an area was won from Islamic State, the fighters would chant and pray and sho

Are new provinces the key to a peaceful Iraq?

Saad Salloum

A member from the Iraqi security forces guards as smoke rises from Baiji oil refinery, north of Baghdad, Iraq May 26, 2015. Iraq's Shi'ite paramilitaries said on Tuesday they had taken charge of the campaign to drive Islamic State from the western province of Anbar, giving the operation an openly sectarian codename that could infuriate its Sunni Muslim population. Picture taken May 26, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer - RTX1EOY1

Security situation weighs on Iraq's economy

Omar al-Jaffal