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Bookmark or Share- The Future of Iraq's Popular Mobilization ForcesOn May 20, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Michael Knights, Hamdi Malik, and Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, coauthors of the recent study Honored, Not Contained: The Future of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces. Knights is a senior fellow with the Institute’s Military and Security Studies Program.
- The Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq: A Political Bargaining Chip ...Calls to Dissolve the Popular Mobilization Forces Last November, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, called to disband and disarm the PMF to limit its activities to the terms stipulated in its founding fatwa , which was issued by Shia religious authority ( marja ‘ ) Ali al-Sistani.
- Kataib Hezbollah Is Part of Iraq’s PMF - The Washington InstituteWhen American forces killed Kataib Hezbollah (KH) members in Iraq on February 3 and 7, the Pentagon was at pains to claim, incorrectly, that the United States was not targeting members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an institution that is legally under the prime minister's command and funded through the PMF Commission, also under the premier's authority.
- HONORED, NOT CONTAINED - Washington Instituteenon of al-Hashd al-Shabi (hereafter the Hashd, or Popular Mobilization Forces, PMF), this report fills a fundamental gap by looking in great depth at the Hashd as a military institution.1 This is not an exhaustive group-by-group gazetteer of Hashd subunits, even though a great deal of unit-specific data is threaded throughout the
- Honored, Not Contained: The Future of Iraq's Popular Mobilization ForcesIn this detailed Policy Focus, meant as a primer for Iraqi and international agencies, leading scholars examine the current status of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces. Hastily raised when the Islamic State was knocking at the gates of Baghdad, the state-backed Iraqi militia network al-Hashd al-Shabi has swollen into a 160,000-strong armed ...
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