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Usbat al-Thaireen (UT) is the earliest known facade group employed by Kataib Hezbollah to thinly veil its culpability in anti-coalition kinetic operations. The groups went inactive in November 2020, probably transforming into the Qasim al-Jabbarin facade, potentially providing an important case study of a facade group's complete life-cycle.

By devoting resources to areas of concentrated recruitment, the Biden administration can reduce the scope of future Middle East conflicts along with the likelihood that U.S. troops will once again be drawn into them.

Iran-backed armed groups hate being exposed as criminals in the eyes of a populace that cares deeply about rule of law, so they have turned Iraq’s legal sector into a battlespace.

Kataib Hezbollah is the premier fasail (armed group) in Iraq, operating under the direct under-command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Qods Force. It has a wide range of cells undertaking kinetic, media and social operations, some of which are bankrolled by the Iraqi state.

Ashab al-Kahf is the first and best-known of the facade groups used by Iran-backed militias to selectively conceal their involvement in operations. Ashab al-Kahf historically has a strong connection to Asaib Ahl al-Haq.

Since losing its territorial base, the group has shown troubling signs of recovery amid a deteriorating situation at al-Hawl refugee camp.

The profiles are a repository of institutional memory on the various armed groups, facade groups, and social organizations associated with Iraqi militias, to be used as concise reminders of how these entities are connected.

The political fallout from a recent speech by the Lebanese Armed Forces commander gives Washington and its partners a golden opportunity to prod the country from crisis management toward actual solutions.

Despite accusations by leftist politicians, Ennahda’s commitment to national security has not wavered since it turned on the jihadi movement, but the party still needs to define what it means by “Muslim Democracy.”