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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the Iraqi government will bring all weapons under the control of the state once the US-led anti-ISIS coalition in the country withdraws, comments that come as he is under increasing pressure from the US to disarm the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
The PMF is a coalition of mostly Shia militias, including groups aligned with Iran, that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS and is formally a part of Iraq’s security forces. Since the large battles against ISIS ended during the first Trump administration, the US has sporadically clashed with the PMF, which has involved significant US airstrikes against the group.
Al-Sudani said that some factions in Iraq view the US-led coalition as an occupying force. “There is no ISIS. Security and stability? Thank God it’s there … so give me the excuse for the presence of 86 states (in a coalition),” al-Sudani told Reuters on Monday…
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