Iraqi political and militia leaders are reportedly responding to pressure from the US to disband Iran-backed militias in Iraq ...

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, a report by campaign group Amnesty International has said. The killings were in apparent revenge for ...

Awsat, Qaani’s mission carried an unambiguous warning from Tehran: should Iraq-based factions act in solidarity with the ...

In 2014, when ISIS invaded Iraq, the militias got another boost when Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr issued a fatwa calling on young men to fight ISIS. The volunteers were funneled into units by the ...

Although Shia versus Sunni violence was the ... The establishment of the joint patrols by Kurdish militias (known as "Peshmerga") and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) achieved in the final days of ...

Syria is trying to unify itself after years of civil war. Both countries face threats from ISIS, and there are US forces in ...

A field leader from Iraq’s Al-Nujaba Shia militia told the newspaper that "the [resistance] units have decided not to intervene in Syrian affairs and to monitor the situation from a distance ...

The timing of Sudani’s remarks is significant, as they follow recent comments from US President Donald Trump, who on Sunday issued a stark warning to Iran.

The Iraqi government, with the assistance of Shiite ... district and has since been held captive by the Iran-backed Shia militia Kataib Hezbollah. Kataib Hezbollah have not officially claimed ...