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Popular Mobilization Forces

The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, Arabic: , romanized: Quwwāt al-Ḥashd ash-Shaʿbī), also known as the People's Mobilization Committee (PMC) and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU),[32] is an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of approximately 67 different armed factions, with around 230,000 fighters that are mostly Shia Muslim groups, but also include Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Yazidi groups.[33][34][35][36] The Popular Mobilization Units as a group was formed in 2014 and have fought in nearly every major battle against ISIL.[37] Many of its main militias, in particular the Shias, trace their origins to the "Special Groups", Iranian-sponsored shiite groups which previously fought an insurgency against the United States and the Coalition forces, as well as a sectarian conflict again Ba'athist and sunni jihadi insurgents.[33][38] It has been called the new Iraqi Republican Guard after it was fully reorganized in early 2018 by its then–Commander in Chief Haider al-Abadi, Prime Minister of Iraq from 2014 to 2018, who issued "regulations to adapt the situation of the Popular Mobilization fighters".[39]

Some of its component militias which pledge allegiance to Iran are considered terrorist groups by some states, while others have been accused of promoting sectarian violence.[40][41][42] Pro-Iran Khomeinist organizations in PMF which pledge allegiance to the Iranian Rahbar include the Badr Organisation, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah, Kata’ib al-Imam Ali, Saraya Khorasani, etc.[43] During the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests, the pro-Iran factions of PMF organisation were responsible for killing and wounding large numbers of protesters and activists.[44][45]

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