Seven months ago, the Iraqi Government signed an agreement to rebuild and rehabilitate the war-torn city of Sinjar in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq. It had been occupied and looted by Daesh in 2014-2015, where the majority of its Yazidi population uprooted, arrested, or killed.
Since then, a growing number of militias have risen to replace Daesh, among which is the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU). The Sinjar Agreement called for their immediate eviction and replacement with government troops sent from Baghdad. The United States welcomed the agreement as a step in the right direction to heal the wounds left behind by Daesh. So did the United Nations.