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Limiting weapons to the Iraqi state... Shiite factions hand over their weapons to Baghdad

In an official ceremony in the city of Samarra in Salah al-Din Governorate, Iraq, the Shiite armed faction of the Saraya al-Salam Brigades, affiliated with the influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, handed over its weapons and its main headquarters. The intention of the Iraqi armed forces to confine weapons to the Iraqi state...a step that reflects Washington's pressure on Baghdad in order to control weapons in the hands of factions close to Tehran.

France 24
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