On Sunday, armed drones attacked the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa
al-Kadhimi in a failed assassination attempt. There were no claims of r


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Iraqi Prime Minister Targeted For Assassination Amid Wave Of Attacks

 

(New York, N.Y.) – On Sunday, armed drones attacked the residence of Iraqi
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in a failed assassination attempt. There were
no claims of responsibility, but Iraqi security officials identified Iran as
the source of the drones while some pointed to Iran-backed militiasKata’ib
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(KH) andAsaib Ahl al-Haq
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responsibility for the assassination attempt. In a Monday visit to Baghdad, the
commander of Iran’sIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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(IRGC) Quds Force also denied Tehran had any connection to the attack.

 

Iraq’s Shiite militias are disappointed by their political failures in last
month’s parliamentary elections, which saw the Fatah Alliance of Shiite and
Iran-backed parties win only 14 seats, down from 48 in the previous election.
Fatah Alliance andBadr Organization
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election results on behalf of Iraq’s Shiite parties, calling the results a
fabrication and threatening to defend the votes of the Iraqi people.

 

The assassination attempt on Kadhimi is the latest in a string
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of violence reflective of Iraq’s declining security. Since the parliamentary
elections, ISIS militantskilled
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11 civilians and injured 13 others in an attack on a village in Iraq’s Diyala
province, rocketsstruck
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a civilian neighborhood near Bagdad’s Green Zone, and pro-Iranian factions
staged two days ofdeadly protests
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ISIS also continues to target U.S. and Iraqi forces. In July 2021, officials
representing the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS warned that ISIS continues to
regroup in Iraq’s Diyala province. Iraqi intelligence officers and local tribal
leaders have also warned ISIS is regrouping in the disputed Kirkuk region in
Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraqi security forces have also broken up ISIS attempts to
smuggle explosives into Iraq from Syria.

 

To read the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)’s resource Iraq: Extremism and
Terrorism, please click here <[link removed]>.

 

To read CEP’s resource Kata’ib Hezbollah, please click here
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To read CEP’s resource Asaib Ahl al-Haq, please click here
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To read CEP’s resource ISIS, please click here
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