The PMU, also known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, is a predominantly Shiite Iranian-backed paramilitary force based in Iraq. The PMU are responsible for the site where the explosion struck ...

This comes as both countries are at a crossroads. Syria is trying to unify itself after years of civil war while both ...

Pro-Iranian militias from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) took part in Quds Day events in Iraq. The events on March 28, part of an annual worldwide campaign backed by Iran to encourage ...

Iraqi Government Spokesman Bassem Al-Awadi said in a statement that, "The Popular Mobilization Units are an official and legal institution and Iraq will never allow any regional or international party ...

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Talks 'very advanced'; IRGC-linked factions may lay down arms to prevent targeting by US airstrikes, say Iran told them to ...

Iraq didn’t seem to face any pressure from ... Kataib Hezbollah is one of the most senior and elite of the PMU militias. It is close to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The PMU has also vowed that, once Isis is driven from Iraq, it will pursue the terrorist organisation into Syria. Syrian MP Mahmoud Bokhadjar said the government would welcome the PMU’s aid “in the ...

The video has sparked wide debate in Iraq. The militiaman - who goes by the ... Shia militia - known as the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) - chanted "Where will you run to?