Hamas of Iraq

Hamas of Iraq
حماس العراق‎ Participant in the Iraqi insurgency
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Active	18 March 2007 – 18 December 2011 January 2014 – present
Ideology	Sunni Islamism Iraqi nationalism
Area of operations	Central Iraq
Part of	PCIR
Originated as	1920 Revolution Brigade
Allies	Islamic Army in Iraq
Opponents	Iraqi Armed Forces

Hamas in Iraq (Arabic: حماس العراق Ḥamās al-‘Irāq) is a Sunni militia group based in Iraq, which split from the 1920 Revolution Brigade on 18 March 2007. The group claims to have released videos of its attack on US troops. The 1920 Revolution Brigade insists that Hamas in Iraq was involved in assisting US troops in their recent Diyala operations against Al-Qaeda in Iraq.Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has feared the US-armed 'concerned local citizens' are an armed Sunni opposition in the making, and has argued that such groups should be under the command of the Iraqi Army or police. On October 11, 2007, the militia group joined a political council that embraced armed insurgency against American forces.

Hamas in Iraq released a political program in April 2007 with some of the following provisions:

In July 2007, The Guardian reported that the group participated with other insurgent groups in an alliance called the Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance, which includes a range of Islamist and nationalist-leaning groups which was formed to negotiate with the Americans in anticipation of an early US withdrawal. Main planks of the joint political program included a commitment to free Iraq from foreign troops, rejection of cooperation with parties involved in political institutions set up under the occupation and a declaration that decisions and agreements made by the US occupation and Iraqi government are null and void."

The 1920 Revolution Brigades insists that Hamas in Iraq was involved in assisting US troops in their recent Diyala operations against al-Qaeda in Iraq in August 2007.

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