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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
Farouk Yousef
  • 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
Michel Cousins
  • 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
Michel Cousins
  • 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
Habib Lassoued
  • 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
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