What's next for Anbar after Liberation from IS

Farhan, a member of the Anbar provincial council, said, “It’s been three years that Anbar has not received the funds for the reconstruction. The entire budget is used for the war and displaced.”

Farhan said the Reform bloc members “left thousands of displaced from Anbar province without shelter, while working to have access to posts and seeking to gain the money coming from donor countries and organizations for the reconstruction of the province.”

Reform bloc parliament member Abdul Rahman al-Luwaizi told Al-Monitor over the phone, “The Anbar provincial council Reform bloc’s objective is to end the monopoly of political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood [the Iraqi Islamic Party] over power in Anbar. Change will be brought about through democratic means, by interrogating and dismissing Gov. Suhaib al-Rawi, head of the provincial council Sabah Karhout and other officials in the province.”

He added, “The Muslim Brotherhood is behind all of the security and political problems in Anbar in recent years, because it failed in the provincial management and reconstruction.”