Militia

Condemnations grow after attack on Kurdistan Regional President

Meanwhile, Iraq’s Defense Ministry claimed it had unearthed rockets appearing to be Iranian-made 107 mm types that were ready to be fired at the Kurdistan Region.

Supporters of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s Reconstruction and Development Coalition Party celebrate, after election results were announced in Baghdad in November 2025.
AN IRANIAN ballistic missile on display in Tehran.

Iran struggles to assert control in Iraq amid strikes, militia attacks, tensions - analysis

A funeral ceremony is held at Al-Hussein Al-Askari Hospital for members of Popular Mobilization Forces who were killed in an attack in Al Anbar Province near the Syria border in Baghdadi Iraq on March 16, 2026.

Iranian-backed militias claim 30 killed, wounded in US airstrikes on base

Kurdistan Regional Government Peshmerga at a mountain outpost. September 19, 2019.

Iran-backed militias strike Kurdistan, killing Peshmerga in northern Iraq


Six injured and at least one Iraqi fighter killed in explosion north of Baghdad

Two different explosive devices were detonated at the checkpoint on Saturday evening, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell.

A view of a damaged building following missile attacks, in Erbil, Iraq, January 16, 2024

China steps up grey-zone warfare to exhaust Taiwan, defense report says

Without resorting to open combat, in recent years, China has been harassing Taiwan in an effort to exhaust them, according to Taiwan.

 Philippine Navy personnel wave the national flags of China and the Philippines as the Chinese naval training ship "Qi Jiguang" docks at the Port of Manila for a four-day goodwill visit, in Manila, Philippines, June 14, 2023.

International community must band together to solve ME militia problem - opinion

The rise of militias in the Middle East places the fate of the region in a balance, with a joint international operational effort needed to defeat these groups and achieve stability

 HEZBOLLAH LEADER Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah delivers a video address during a rally in Beirut last week.

Sirens heard at US Embassy in Iraq - report

The event came within a half hour of reports that the United States and Britain had begun striking Houthi targets in Yemen, and if it was indeed an attack, it was presumably an act of retaliation. 

 An Iraqi woman walks along a street during high temperatures in Baghdad, Iraq, July 20, 2022.

JustGiving backs down on withheld funds for IDF ‘militia’ phone chargers

The fundraising site had originally refused to pay out the over £20,000 raised for portable chargers for IDF soldiers, arguing that the funds could be used to "support a militia."

 IDF activity in the Gaza Strip

Iranian militia behind drone to Eilat sent another intercepted aircraft

The "Imam Hussein Brigade" was established in 2016, and it is headed by a man who calls himself Dou Al-Fakkar, a son of the Shiite village of Hanawiya in southern Lebanon.

 Missiles and drone aircraft are seen on display at an exhibition at an unidentified location in Yemen in this undated handout photo released by the Houthi Media Office on September 17, 2019

Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr calls for closure of US embassy in Iraq

Some 800 supporters of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella group of mainly Shi'ite militia, departed from Baghdad last week in buses for the Iraqi-Jordanian border.

Muqtada al-Sadr

Iraqi militias may be preparing for attacks, US experts say

A new Washington Institute report finds that Iraqi militias are using the type of coded language that has historically preceded attacks on US targets.

A member of Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) holds a flag of Kataib Hezbollah militia group during a protest to condemn air strikes on their bases, in Baghdad, Iraq December 31, 2019

Palestinians in Gaza launch rocket-themed perfume

Bottles of the different scents will represent different Palestinian factions and militia groups.

A Palestinian man sells perfume in packages shaped like homemade rocket models at his store in Gaza City, on October 2, 202 October 2, 2023

US calls out Turkey's Syrian proxies for 'extensive human rights abuses' - opinion

BEHIND THE LINES: There are no independent enclaves remaining in Syria today. Everyone is working for someone else. In the case of northwest Syria, the Islamist factions that rule work for Turkey.

 A TURKISH soldier waves a flag on Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria, in January 2018.