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Qusay Mahmud Ali returned to find his house north of the Iraqi capital burned, what appeared to be bomb-making material left behind and a noose hanging from a nearby building. Security forces and volunteer fighters retook the Sherween area of Diyala province from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, but Ali and others now want government help to repair the damage. Whether or not such assistance is forthcoming will have a major impact on public trust in the government, and its ultimate ability to maintain long-term control of retaken areas. Ali and his family fled Sherween some six months earlier, after it became clear that the arrival of IS -- which some Iraqi Sunnis initially welcomed as an opponent of the widely-disliked Shiite-led government -- was not a change for the better.
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