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    The Iraqi Popular Army, also known as the People's Army or People's Militia (Arabic: الجيش الشعبي Al Jaysh ash Shaabi), was a paramilitary and gendarmerie...
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  • The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), also referred to as the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of...
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    began a mass mobilization program to force draft dodgers into the Iraqi Popular Army. This decision allowed for the drafting of thousands of university...
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    The Islamic Army in Iraq (Arabic: الجيش الإسلامي في العراق, romanized: al-Jaysh al-Islāmi fī'l-`irāq, abbr. IAI) was an underground Islamist militant organization...
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    Christian, and Yazidi groups. The Popular Mobilization Units were formed in 2014 and fought in nearly every major Iraqi battle against Islamic State. Many...
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  • The Iraqi Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Iraq. They consist of the Ground forces, the Army Aviation Command, the Iraqi Air Force...
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    The Popular Movement in Iraq (Arabic: الحراك الشعبي في العراق) or the Sunni Popular Movement, or just Popular Movement, or Hirak is a Sunni political...
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    The United States public's opinion on the invasion of Iraq has changed significantly since the years preceding the incursion. For various reasons, mostly...
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    The Mahdi Army (Arabic: جيش المهدي) was an Iraqi Shia militia created by Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. The Mahdi Army rose to international...
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    The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), sometimes called the Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to...
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    Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under...
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  • Governorate. 22 August – Clashes break out between units of the Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilization Forces in Karbala, leading to the arrest of six militiamen...
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    Opposition to the Iraq War significantly occurred worldwide, both before and during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States–led coalition...
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    The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of...
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    The Free Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي الحر, Al-Jayš Al-‘Irāqī Al-Ḥurr, FIA) was an Iraqi rebel group formed in the western Sunni-majority provinces...
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    Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (Arabic: المملكة العراقية الهاشمية, romanized: al-Mamlakah al-ʿIrāqiyyah ʾal-Hāshimyyah, lit. 'Iraqi Hashemite Kingdom') was...
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    Fedayeen Saddam (category 1995 establishments in Iraq)
    were armed with AK-47/AKM assault rifles and RPGs. "Blessed July" Popular Army (Iraq) Salman Pak facility Q&A: What is the Fedayeen Saddam? Archived 2018-02-14...
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    overwhelming the Iraqi lines (usually the weakest portion, typically manned by the Iraqi Popular Army), regardless of losses. According to the former Iraqi general...
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    Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. With a population...
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    him, making him the second most popular man in Iraq, behind only Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani.[citation needed] The Mahdi Army is believed to have around 60...
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  • Syria's desert areas and the Iraq–Syria border. Iraqi officials reported that airstrikes targeted the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Akashat...
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  • Badr Organization (redirect from Badr Army)
    during the Iran–Iraq War. Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, most of the Badr Brigade fighters have entered the new Iraqi army and police force...
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    in the regime's popular slogan as being "From Zakho in the North to Kuwait in the South", Zakho referring to the border between Iraq and Turkey. The Qasim...
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    the Naqshbandi Army, is one of a number of underground Ba'athist militant insurgency groups fighting U.S.-led Coalition forces in Iraq. Media frequently...
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    During the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States–led coalition, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency developed a set of playing cards to help troops...
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    air strike since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. forces. In April, the Iraqi Army, with the help of the Popular Mobilization Forces, launched the Western...
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    The Iraqi invasion of Iran began on 22 September 1980, sparking the Iran–Iraq War, and lasted until 5 December 1980. Iraq attacked under the impression...
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    السلام) is an Iraqi Shia militia formed in 2014. They are a part of the Popular Mobilization Forces and are a partial revival of the Mahdi Army. The name...
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    2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, also known as the Kirkuk crisis, was a conflict in which the Iraqi government retook disputed territories in Iraq which...
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    State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh...
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