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Baghdad’s Shia Militia Plans for War on ISIS

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A commander of Moqtada al Sadr’s newly renamed ‘Peace Brigades’ describes plans to reunify Iraq—with a little help from Iran. Will they fight ISIS as hard as they fought the U.S. Army?

Jacob Siegel
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