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Asaib Ahl al-Haq

An aerial view of the Mandali crossing between Iraq and Iran. The Mandali crossing on the Iranian border is run by the Badr Organisation, an Iraqi movement founded in Iran, port workers, officials and analysts confirmed. An official there boasted to AFP that a border operative can rake in $10,000 per day in bribes, the bulk of which is distributed to the overseeing armed group and complicit officials. (Thaier Al-SUDANI / AFP)
March 31, 2021, 4:17 pm
‘A mafia’ stealing billions: Iran-tied customs-evasion cartel rules Iraq borders
Many of Iraq’s entry points are informally controlled by groups within the Hashed al-Shaabi, a powerful state-sponsored armed network close to Tehran
By Maya Gebeily
In this photo from June 23, 2017, supporters of Iraqi Hezbollah brigades march on a representation of an Israeli flag with a portrait of late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
December 28, 2019, 8:21 am
Iran-backed groups accuse Iraqi president of caving to US for rejecting PM pick
Hezbollah Brigades accuse Barham Saleh of seeking ‘to pull the country toward chaos,’ while anti-government protesters call organizations supported by Tehran ‘blocs of corruption’
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
In this illustrative photo from July 1, 2016, members of the Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq paramilitary group take part in a Quds Day march in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
October 27, 2019, 12:21 am
Pro-Iran militias blame Israel and US for offices torched in Iraq protests
After one of its commanders reportedly killed in fire, head of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq paramilitary says ‘his blood is on America and Israel’s hands’
By AFP
Anti-government protesters burn police vehicles guarding the provincial council during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq, October 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
October 26, 2019, 12:22 am
Day’s death toll rises to 42 in Iraq anti-government protests
Over a dozen killed while setting fire to, trying to storm offices of Iran-backed Shiite paramilitary groups in southern cities
By AFP
Shiite militiamen carry a poster of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while stepping on a drawing of an Israeli flag during a Jerusalem Day rally in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, June 8, 2018. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
May 16, 2019, 7:33 pm
Armed pro-Iran groups in Iraq reject US claim of threat
Shiite militia leader accuses Washington of ‘trying to create an uproar in Iraq and the regions under any pretext’
By AFP
This frame grab from video provided on Dec. 8, 2017, by Asaid Ahl al-Haq's TV station al-Ahd, shows Iraqi militia commander Qais al-Khazali of the Iranian-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, speaking in front of a wall that was built by Israel at the Fatima Gate border point in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. (Al-Ahd TV station via AP)
December 9, 2017, 10:22 pm
Lebanese PM slams visit by Iran-backed Iraqi militia chief to Israeli border
Saad Hariri orders Qais al-Khazali banned after trip organized by Hezbollah, whose regional interventions have drawn premier’s ire
By Agencies
A Hezbollah observation post on the Israeli-Lebanese border, according to the IDF. Photo released on June 22, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
December 9, 2017, 3:24 pm
Powerful Iraqi militia leader appears on Lebanon-Israel border
Qais al-Khazali tours area with Hezbollah, infuriating the Lebanese PM who orders him banned from the country
By AP
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