Behind the Lines: Militias merge into Iraqi security forces?
The prime minister’s statement went on to clarify that headquarters, offices and independent checkpoints maintained by the militias are to be shut down.
SHI’ITE FIGHTERS launch a mortar round toward Islamic State lines in al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, in 2015. Iraqi forces, backed by Shi’ite militia fighters, say they have retaken a mountain palace complex of former president Saddam Hussein from Islamic State fighters, as government forces push ahea(photo credit: THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS)ByJONATHAN SPYER
