Iraq 0
29 January 2019

The U.S. intelligence community assessed that "in Iraq, Iran-supported Popular Mobilisation Committee-affiliated Shiite militias remain the primary threat to U.S. personnel, and we expect that threat to increase as the threat ISIS poses to the militias recedes, Iraqi government formation concludes, some Iran-backed groups call for the U.S. to withdraw, and tension between Iran and the U.S. grows". 

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