Although he was not named in the Shafaq report, it appears Walai was referring to US Ambassador Steven H. Fagin, who assumed his duties as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Baghdad in May 2025.

Hezbollah Brigades is now the second Iranian-backed Shia militia in Iraq to directly threaten the United States over involvement against the Hamas-led militant ... Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was a ...

The campaign to retake the city of Tikrit from ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, involves a curious mixture of Iraqi forces – the army and air force, federal police, powerful Shia militia ...

The leader of an Iran-backed faction that attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq is now cast as a hero in the anti-ISIS war. In this interview, there’s a lot of blood between the lines.

Iraqi Shia militia warns the United States about involvement against Hamas. By Joe Truzman | October 10, 2023 | @JoeTruzman. Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), one of Iran’s main proxies inside Iraq’s ...

Iraqi Shia Militia Smuggles Oil Into Iran By Irina Slav - Apr 13, 2018, 11:00 AM CDT. The Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary organization in Iraq is smuggling crude from fields around Kirkuk to Iran, an ...

Iraqi Shia fighters and members of Hashd al-Shaabi (AFP) ... held a meeting in Baghdad in March 2014 with prominent Shia militia allies to agree on the best ways to secure Baghdad. ...

Supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr carry his image as they celebrate in Tahrir Square, in Iraq in May 2018. (Hadi Mizban/AP) A controversial Iraqi politician and Shia cleric said Wednesday ...

Iraq’s Shia militias committed atrocities against U.S. forces during the occupation of Iraq but they are only force that can inflict heavy blows on ISIS.

Key Background. Kataib Hezbollah is an Iraqi Shia militia linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. It was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2009.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the U.S. drone strike in central Baghdad that killed a militia commander was a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

Iraqi security forces investigating the abduction raided the Baghdad headquarters of another Iranian-backed Shia militia Kataib Hezbollah, but without result, reported Reuters. New MEE newsletter ...