Two influential Shiite factions in the Iraqi parliament, the State of Law Coalition and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, boycotted Saturday ...

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

A senior Iraqi resistance leader says disarmament of resistance groups could weaken Iraq's defense capability.

The Iraqi government has withdrawn the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Retirement Law from Parliament, pending amendments ...

Iraqi forces along the western border have been placed on high alert following clashes in Syria, a military spokesperson said ...

The Iranian regime spent decades building the Axis of Resistance, a coalition of anti-Western militias that extended Tehran’s influence deep into the Arab world. But what takes years to build can ...

During their conversation, both leaders emphasized the importance of maintaining and strengthening the relationship between ...

He noted it would have been "impossible to discuss this topic" in Iraq two years ago. The PMF is an umbrella of predominantly Shiite Iraqi militias formed in 2014 to fight ISIS. It includes ...

Ahmadian considered the relations between the two countries to be very close and brotherly, emphasizing Iran's comprehensive support for Iraq.

Also operating in Iraq are the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). The PMF was formed in 2014 after Iraq’s Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called for Iraqis to rise up and fight ...

During the war in Gaza, some of the groups that make up the PMF launched drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. They have not launched any attacks since the fall of Assad. Mansour said ...

Explicitly modeled after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the PMF has been the main vehicle for Iranian meddling in Iraq. Members of the Iraqi government have begun arguing that with the ...