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Iraq said Sunday that 14 members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were arrested for raiding an office of the ...
A gun battle in Baghdad between police and Iran-backed paramilitaries resulted in one police death and 14 arrests. The clash ...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced American objections to pending Iraqi legislation concerning the Popular Mobilization ...
Iran has that Iranian dissident groups are present in the Kurdistan region. TheKurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) interior ministry on Friday pointed the finger at Iranian-backed militias in ...
Iraq’s prime minister has kept the country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years ...
Baghdad: The US embassy in Iraq accused on Monday the pro-Iran Kataib Hezbollah group of being behind the attack on an Agriculture Ministry building in Baghdad as a new director was being sworn in.A ...
Public anger is mounting in Iraq after clashes between security forces and gunmen from an Iran-backed militia in Baghdad left two dead. The violence was sparked when fighters stormed a government ...
Iraq’s joint operations command said in a statement that “two drones targeted” the Khurmala field, causing material damage. It added that it was coordinating with Kurdistan’s security forces to ...
Shia irregulars, who coalesced to form the Popular Mobilisation Forces in Iraq a decade ago, already anticipate another retreat from the border with Syria and the mainly Sunni provinces in ...
On July 5, northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government blamed the Iraqi federal government’s Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) for drone attacks impacting Iraqi Kurdistan.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims are in the Iraqi city of Karbala for Ashoura, the holy day on which Shiite Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad ...

Dispersed force

In the Modi era, a key shift in welfare delivery — the expansion of cash transfer schemes, along with digitisation of social ...