Shia militia have been accused of kidnapping and killing scores of Sunni civilians since Islamic State launched an offensive in northern Iraq last June that saw the jihadist group seize large ...

Photo: Herald Post, Flickr. In the aftermath of the fall of Mosul to ISIS in June 2014 and following a fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a new militia umbrella group, al-Hashd al-Shaabi ...

The group is considered a terrorist organisation ... Hezbollah emerged out of Shia militias formed to resist Israel after its invasion of southern Lebanon in 1982, during Lebanon's 1975-1990 ...

Afghan and Pakistani militants who fought alongside the Syrian regime have relocated to Iraq, sparking security concerns and ...

BEIRUT—As hundreds of thousands of people gathered for the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on ...

TASS/. The attack by Shia armed units, making part of the Islamic Resistance of Iraq movement, on the US military base Ain al-Asad in the Anbar Province was a demonstration of force, Russian ...

I mean, the city is divided between hundreds of parties, groups ruling the city. There is no power by the government in the city. I mean, it’s divided between PMU, the Sunni militias, the Shia ...