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Iraq

Fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces parade in Basra, last September. (AP)

Militias besiege and oppress Iraqis

Bahira al-Sheikhly

Iraq

Friends and relatives of Alaa Mashdhub light candles at his assassination site in Karbala, February 5. (AP)

Iraqi intellectuals alone in the face of assassinations

Iraq

Iraqi writers and intellectuals shout slogans and raise banners showing the portrait of slain novelist Alaa Mashdhub in Baghdad’s central Tahrir square, February 6. (AFP)

Slain Iraqi novelist criticised foreign meddling, militias

Iraq

A screengrab shows Aws al-Khafaji, commander of the Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade. (MEMRI TV)

Shia militia commander detained in Iraq after criticising Iran

Libya

UN Special Envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, last September. (AFP)

Tripoli clashes, lack of Libyan support to UN initiative undermine Salame’s standing

Libya

Libyan militiamen loyal to the Government of National Accord keep watch from a position south of Tripoli, on September 25. (AFP)

Militias back in driver’s seat in Tripoli

Hezbollah

Gathering storm. A man walks in front of the headquarters of the Lebanese Blom Bank in Beirut. (Reuters)

Lebanon needs a credible new government, not alignment with Iran

Khairallah Khairallah

Libya

A file picture shows a militia fighter firing towards rival positions in western Sirte. (AFP)

The war of spoils continues in Tripoli at expense of Libyans

Libya

Smoke raise as people check the damaged after a rocket hit a camp for displaced people during the fight between rival armed groups in Tripoli, Libya September 2, 2018. (Reuters)

More than 50 dead from Tripoli clashes