 Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Three people were maimed Wednesday in a firefight between Iraqi police and Iraq’s Hezbollah militias in the capital Baghdad, a security source said.
"The festivities erupted after a police patrol stopped a car in the Paleostine Street in Baghdad. Later on, a five-vehicle convoy of Hezbollah arrived at the scene and clashed with the police forces before fleeing the scene," the source told Al Arab Al Yawm newspaper.
"Iraqi security forces sealed off the headquarters of Iraq’s Hezbollah in Baghdad," the source said. "Following negotiations between police and Hezbollah leaders, the latter agreed to hand over the fighters who had fired on the police patrol."
According to the source, three people were maimed in the faceoff, including two coppers and a Hezbollah fighter.
Kata’ib Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades, is an Iraqi Shia paramilitary group supported by Iran. The group, which is a component of the Iran-backed al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters, played a role in Iraq’s wars against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and American Invasion forces.
The group’s structure is not known, but Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Iran’s Quds Force and a former Badr Organization member, is known to be a senior figure in the group. 
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