Iranian-backed militias in Iraq are reportedly considering an initiative to disarm and place their weapons under government ...

Commanders and militant groups will face asset freezes from Friday under the sanctions, the Foreign Office said.

Facebook is a hotbed for conspiracy theories and dangerous organizing at critical moments, like the 650,000-plus posts arguing against President Biden's victory between the 2020 general election and ...

Numerous members of the newly elected Iraqi parliament have affiliations with the Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias. These militias are often categorized as the Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd ...

“Join Your Local Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group called the Free American Army. Accompanied by the logo for the Three Percenters militia ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. When journalists sounded alarm bells in early May 2024 that more than 100 ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the U.S. Trump administration, 10 ...

As a scholar of militias, I’ve seen extremists get kicked off Facebook before. This time, the platform’s moderators took down roughly 100 pages and profiles for violating the social media network’s ...

Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of an Israeli-backed anti-Hamas militia, was killed in Gaza during an attempt to mediate a local conflict.