Why powerful pro-Tehran militias in Iraq stayed quiet amid Iran conflict. As the U.S. struck Iran, the prospect for retaliation was running high in neighboring Iraq, where American and Iranian ...

When U.S. forces struck three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, concern rippled through the population of neighboring Iraq, where pro-Iranian militias wield much influence and the ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani spoke with militia leaders while the influential Shia leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, waded into the foray as well, pressuring militias to stop the operations.

Tehran can exercise only so much control over its proxies in day-to-day operations. By tying Iran’s fate to an unruly Axis, Khamenei has endangered his country and put it at serious risk of war.

The secretary general of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades — one of the largest pro-Iranian militias in Iraq — asserts that “Iran does not need military support from anyone to deter the Zionist ...

Several of the Iran-backed militia groups operating in Iraq are set to demilitarize for the first time to avoid conflict with the US following President Trump's threats to Tehran's proxies, senior ...

It was meant to sound devastating, and likely felt so to the pro-Iranian militia on the receiving end. But Friday night’s airstrikes against over 80 targets inside Iraq and Syria were — so far ...

Tehran's militias in Iraq appear to be living their last days there. The Houthis are next. After them, Iran will remain with no external forces preventing the fight from reaching its doorstep.

Pro-Iranian militias from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) took part in Quds Day events in Iraq. The events on March 28, part of an annual worldwide campaign backed by Iran to encourage ...