Iraq’s Anbar province rebuilds after Isis

A boulevard by the river is illuminated with street lights, new roads and shopping malls being built: five years after the defeat of jihadi group Isis, there are signs of a fragile economic resurgence in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.

Infamous as a hotbed of Sunni resistance during the US-led occupation and later a stronghold for al-Qaeda and then Isis, a tentative security has returned to Anbar, Iraq’s largest province.

As a result, Ramadi and Fallujah, the province’s main cities, are buzzing with construction projects, bustling markets and…