Araz Muhamad Arash Journalist, Iraqi Kurdistan The Militias in Iraq, From Popular Mobilization to Political Interference Araz Muhamad Arash, Sylvain Mercadier · February 2018 The Popular Mobilization Units or Hashd al-Shaabi, formed in 2014 following a fatwa by grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, played a major role in countering the expansion of the Islamic State in Iraq. As the Islamic State was officially defeated last December, the future of the PMU is subject to (...)
