A commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, said the volunteer forces and other security forces are in full control of the common border with Syria. In a statement on Wednesday, Tahsin al-Husseini said he visited common borders between Iraq and Syria north of Euphrates ...
Bahrain’s prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem and Iraq’s senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Iraq held a landmark meeting on Friday in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Ayatollah Sistani hosted the visiting Sheikh Qassem, who flew in from London earlier in the week after undergoing months of surgeries ...