Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (left) with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Tuesday.Credit:Getty Images
Those militias are absent from the battle for Ramadi,which is being fought by Iraqi forces and an alliance of Sunni tribesmen,backed by US-led airstrikes.
Even if Iraqi forces were to reoccupy all of the areas now controlled by IS and the Syrian city of Raqqa – now its unofficial capital – was liberated,without serious reform a group like the IS and all the chaos it causes will just re-emerge from the ashes,warns Zaid al-Ali,an Iraqi lawyer and author of the bookThe Struggle for Iraq's Future.
"Without serious security sector reform and serious justice sector reform in Iraq there is absolutely no point engaging in any of these initiatives,"says Ali,also a visiting lecturer and fellow at Princeton University.
Instead of dealing with the threat of Islamic State militants by undertaking military and police operations based on good intelligence,Iraqi forces were randomly rounding people up,arresting them and forcing them to pay bribes to get out.