Haidar al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister, has rejected a call by Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shia leader, to dissolve a controversial militia, Hashd al-Shaabi, a Shia unit alternatively called the Badr militia, which was established in 2014 with the avowed purpose of fighting ISIL, also known as ISIS.
"The Hashd al-Shaabi … is for Iraq and..
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