Interior Ministry on Friday pointed the finger at Iranian-backed militias in Iraq as the culprits behind the recent drone attacks.These attacks began on June 24, when the ceasefire was coming into ...

The Kurdistan Regional Government firmly denied Iranian reports claiming a drone strike targeted an Israeli base in Erbil, ...

Over the last several years, I have met with commanders and fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (al-hashd al-sha’abi, or PMF), an umbrella organization of some 50 paramilitary groups, to ...

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A photograph of the Popular Mobilization Force’s poster suggesting Iraqi women in Baghdad wear the hijab. Image from Qenshrin.. The Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), the command assigned by the Iraqi ...

FILE - In this June 8, 2018 file photo, Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces march as they hold their flag and posters of Iraqi and Iranian Shiites spiritual leaders during "al-Quds" or Jerusalem Day ...

Though the Popular Mobilization Forces were formally inducted into the country's armed forces in 2018, the same year the White House left the nuclear agreement, rogue Shiite Muslim militias have ...

The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) had said that an airstrike killed and wounded several of its forces near northern Baghdad’s Taji camp.

The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) is an Iraqi state security service that Iran has infiltrated and uses to wield significant influence in Iraq. Iran’s cooptation of the PMF enables Tehran to ...

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The crisscrossing agendas facing Iraq -- pressured by the U.S. and Iran while trying to set up a functioning government in Baghdad and preventing a revival of the Islamist terrorism that nearly ...