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BAGHDAD — Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has targeted Iraq’s leading Shi’ite militia.
Officials said ISIL has begun a campaign against the Mahdi Army, deemed the largest Shi’ite militia in Iraq. They said ISIL squads were monitoring and attacking Mahdi strongholds in an effort to sow panic among the ruling Shi’ite community.
On Oct. 7, ISIL attack Mahdi Army units were attacked south of Tikrit. Police reported that 12 Mahdi fighters were injured in Mukaishfieh.
Mahdi, which contains more than 10,000 fighters and commanded by Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Sadr, has been deemed the leading Shi’ite militia in Iraq. The militia, trained and equipped by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been deployed against ISIL around Baghdad and in northern Iraq.
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