The head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) met and held talks with the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National ...

The stalled negotiations also coincide with intensified U.S. demands for the Iraqi government to curb the influence of PMF ...

Iraqi activists launched a campaign called "Iraq Only" to reject interference from Iran-aligned armed militias in their ...

Iraqi armed groups are hoping they can ward off an effort by a group of United States members of congress to slap terror ...

“It’s time for a new Iraq policy. It doesn’t make sense to ... of congress are part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). The umbrella organization emerged as a volunteer force backing ...

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 ...

During their meeting, Hakim and al-Fayyad discussed the importance of maintaining security and military readiness and preserving the PMF's role within Iraq’s national defense framework. Al-Hashd ...

Iraq’s plans to tackle the issue of armed factions have stalled due to a lack of communication with the administration of US President Donald Trump, an Iranian decision to avoid unnecessary actions, ...

With Iranian influence waning in the Middle East, the Iraqi government wants armed groups, including factions within the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), to lay down their arms and ...

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. Mansour said that much of the anxiety in Iraq about the post-Assad future of ...