Al-Monitor | Ali Mamouri: Iran-backed Shiite militias have been under increasing pressure recently in Iraq not only from the United States which monitors their activities closely but also from the public and the Iraqi government. During an interview Aug. 9 with a small group of Iraqi and foreign media representatives, Prime Minister Adel Abdul ...

[caption id="attachment_103598" align="alignright" width="193"] In this picture taken Saturday, June 21, 2014, Iraqi armed Shiite militiamen, followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, parade in the northern oil rich province of Kirkuk, Iraq. The insurgents came at midday, walking across a canal, advancing under cover of mortar fire toward the cluster ...