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Pro-Iran Iraqi militias increasingly fragmented since Suleimani assassination

Internal disputes are emerging within pro-Iran factions in the PMU, a year and a half after the killing of the former IRGC Quds Force leader Qasim Sulaimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Mustafa Saadoun
Mustafa Saadoun
Jun 11, 2021
Iraqi girls wearing headbands bearing the slogan "we are the children of (Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi) al-Muhandis" and pins of portraits of Iran's revered commander Qasem Soleimani
Iraqi girls wearing headbands bearing the slogan "we are the children of (Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi) al-Muhandis" and pins of portraits of Iran's revered commander Qasem Soleimani (L) and commander of Iraq's Asaib Ahl al-Haq pro-Iran faction Qais al-Khazali, take part in a rally in Tahrir square in the capital, Baghdad, on Jan. 3, 2021, to mark one year after a US drone strike killed Soleimani and Muhandis near the capital. — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images

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