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Stabilization Efforts

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The enduring defeat of ISIS remains a top [blank] for the United States. The U.S. led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS is leading stabilization efforts that [blank] military gains, [blank] basic essential services, and enable Syrians to voluntarily and safely return to their homes in Raqqa and other former ISIS strongholds. Assistance includes [blank] hazard and rubble removal, providing clean water, rehabilitating electricity networks, and other basic [blank] . Since April, the United States has elicited approximately $300 million in contributions and pledges from Coalition partners to support immediate stabilization and early recovery [blank] in areas liberated from ISIS in northeast Syria.

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The enduring defeat of ISIS remains a top priority for the United States. The U.S. led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS is leading stabilization efforts that consolidate military gains, restore basic essential services, and enable Syrians to voluntarily and safely return to their homes in Raqqa and other former ISIS strongholds. Assistance includes explosive hazard and rubble removal, providing clean water, rehabilitating electricity networks, and other basic necessities . Since April, the United States has elicited approximately $300 million in contributions and pledges from Coalition partners to support immediate stabilization and early recovery initiatives in areas liberated from ISIS in northeast Syria.
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