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A growing challenge for Iraq: Iran-aligned Shiite militias

by Associated Press
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM
Wed, March 31, 2021

BAGHDAD (AP) — It was a stark message: A convoy of masked Shiite militiamen, armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, drove openly through central Baghdad denouncing the U.S. presence in Iraq and threatening to cut off the prime minister’s ear.
The ominous display underscored the growing […]