Why does Iran need 200,000 pro-Iran militiamen in Iraq? - analysis
A report alleges that the number of pro-Iran militiamen have grown so large that they are the third largest military force in Iraq.
Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim men from the Iranian-backed group Kataib Hezbollah wave the party's flags as they walk along a street painted in the colours of the Israeli flag during a parade marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Baghdad(photo credit: THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS)BySETH J. FRANTZMANUpdated: