#1 Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq is an Iran funded Shiite militant organization. It split off from the Mahdi Army in 2006. The group is funded by Iran and promotes Iran’s interests in Iraq. It targeted U.S. troops prior to the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 after which point it became a political organization. Since the rise of IS in 2013, the AAH has fought alongside the Iraq gov against IS. In 2017 it became a member of the Fatah coalition in the Iraqi government and won 14 seats in the Iraqi Parliament.
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