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Iraq’s government argues that passing a new legislation – which would fully integrate the PMF into the state – would help ...
Iraq has been shaken in recent weeks by attacks on civilian infrastructure by the Popular Mobilization Forces.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein stated on August 18 that efforts to pass a new law in the parliament to regulate the ...
Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia, was involved in a deadly shooting at Iraq's Ministry of Agriculture on July 27.
Iraqi and American officials announced that the US-led counter-Islamic State operation in Iraq began its transition to a ...
The Coordination Framework, which convened on August 22, ultimately decided to suspend the bill. Instead of pushing for new ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba says it is under imminent threat of Israeli attacks, a senior official from the group told Rudaw on Wednesday, ...
Despite the lingering scars left by the Islamic State s capture of swaths of Iraq and Syria over a decade ago and the current ...
The US military in Iraq is shifting its posture amid rising tensions between Iran and Israel, even as Tehran grows frustrated ...
Historically, Tehran has enjoyed outsized influence over Iraqi policy through the entrenchment of its Axis of Resistance (AOR ...
Members of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) attend a symbolic funeral of fellow members of PMF who were killed by U.S. air strikes on the Syria-Iraq border, in Baghdad, Iraq, June 29, 2021 ...
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Asharq Al-Awsat on MSN11hOpinion

Arms Are More Than Just a Security and Political Dilemma

Restricting armament to the state constitutes the central challenge of the Arab world. It is not merely a security and political question; rather, it pertains to the very essence of modern statehood, ...