Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Mozambique's civil war ended more than a quarter century ago, but its once world-beating

cashew industry is still recovering.

How the government is trying to rebuild it is an object lesson in international development.

And an unusual opera examines the life and letters of Marie Stopes.

After a failed marriage, she became a birth control pioneer and an agony ant to thousands.

That century-old tale still resonates amid today's reproductive rights debates.

But first... It's more than five years since the Islamic State's fighters burst into the Iraqi city of Mosul and took it over.

The lightning strike prompted America to patch together an international coalition to fight against

the extremists in Syria and Iraq, working closely with local partner forces on the ground.

We're also providing urgent assistance to Iraqi government and Kurdish forces so they can more

effectively wage the fight against ISIL.

Now, President Donald Trump has declared victory against IS.

The group's territory has shrunk to almost nothing,

and its members are penned in squalid camps and jails.

I've been president for almost two years, and we've really stepped it up,

and we have won against ISIS.

So, Mr. Trump said at the weekend that he plans to withdraw American forces from part of Syria.

He'll abandon some of those local partners, led by ethnic Kurds.

They now feel vulnerable to hostility from Turkey.

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