Iraq to compensate 90,000 civilians affected by Nineveh battles

A senior Iraqi official announced that Iraq has decided to compensate 90,000 civilians harmed by the “liberation battles” in the Nineveh governorate.

This came in a statement released on September 18, 2020 and made by Mohammed Mahmoud, director of the sub-committee for compensating people affected by war operations in the Nineveh Governorate.

Mahmoud explained that, “It was decided to compensate 90,000 civilians in the Nineveh governorate, who suffered material and human losses during the battles that the security forces fought against Daesh in the region.”

“So far, 9,000 civilians have received the compensation money, and about 50,000 requests for compensation have been approved,” he added

He however did not reveal the amount of compensation awarded to those affected, but he expects that the actual number of war victims will exceed the recorded statistics.