Coalition Members Must Help Iraq Rebuild, Tillerson Says

Coalition Members Must Help Iraq Rebuild, Tillerson Says
Members of the Iraqi forces stand outside the destroyed Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul's Old City, on January 8, 2018, six months after troops seized the country's second city from ISIS. Ahmad Al-RubayeE/AFP/Getty Images
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KUWAIT—The United States urged members of the coalition fighting ISIS on Tuesday to help rebuild Iraq or risk the reversal of the gains made against the group there.

The U.S. leads the coalition and hopes that after a three-year fight to defeat the militants it can count in large part on Gulf allies to shoulder the burden of rebuilding Iraq and on a Saudi-Iraqi rapprochement to weaken Iran’s influence in the country, which is run by a Shi'ite led government.