All Policy Analysis by حمدی ملک

What to make of HaN spokesperson Nasr al-Shammari's admission that his group is a member of the top militia committee?

Even Iran’s proxies now have proxies, but authorities can still untangle and attribute their illegal acts through expanded use of rich open-source evidence.

Despite welcoming the idea of separating the nationalist “shrine units” from the Iran-leaning Popular Mobilization Forces, Washington should lighten its touch on the issue.

In the year since their most iconic leaders were killed, Iran-backed militias in Iraq have been changing in crucial ways, providing rich insights into how Baghdad and its international partners should approach them in 2021.

The Iraq-based Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) is diligently and meticulously working to achieve hegemony among Iran-backed 'resistance' militias in Iraq. The group is positioning itself as the 'true resistance' faction and obliging other Iran-backed groups to follow its lead. In order to achieve this goal, KH is operating on military and

اقدامات اصلاحی که از سوی رهبران حشد شعبی مطرح شده، آنقدر مبهم است که می‌تواند باعث تحکیم این گروه شبه‌نظامی به نام بهبودِ بخش امنیتی شود.

Three experts examine one of the most sensitive problems facing Iraq's new prime minister: the future of militias that were mobilized to fight the Islamic State but have since balked at subsuming themselves to the government's authority.

سفر فرمانده سپاه قدس با این هدف انجام شد که شبه‌نظامیان شیعه را علیه آمریکا و رقیبان سیاسی داخلی متحد کند، اما اطلاعات میدانی گویای آن است که نیروی قدسِ پساسلیمانی کم‌کم نفوذ خود را در عراق از دست می‌دهد.

In this detailed Policy Focus, meant as a primer for Iraqi and international agencies, leading scholars examine the current status of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces.

One large faction of Shia volunteers demonstrates how the PMUs can function under Iraqi -- not Iranian -- control, offering a model that coalition forces should support.

More than two weeks after the launch of the Muhammad Rasallah II operation, the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs, or al-Hashd al-Shabi) reached the Syria-Iraq border west of Mosul on May 29, 2017. Hadi al-Ameri, leader of the Badr Organization and one of the most influential PMU commanders, announced from the