Iraq’s Badr Organization chief places fighters under national army

The secretary general of Badr Organization, Iraq’s biggest Shia Muslim paramilitary group, has told his fighters to take orders from the national military and sever their relations with the group’s political wing, which holds 22 seats in the Iraqi parliament. Hadi al-Amiri made the request in a speech delivered on Thursday, further calling on his ...

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