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Khazali Network

Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH)
عصائب أهل الحق
Participant in Iraq War
Iraqi Civil War
Syrian Civil War
Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haq flag.png
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq's flag
Active July 2006 – present
Ideology Shia Islamism (Wilayat al Faqih)
Leaders Qais al-Khazali
Akram al-Kabi (2007–2010)
Headquarters Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq
Area of operations Mainly Baghdad and Southern Iraq; also active in Iraq's Central regions and Syria
Size 10,000
Part of Popular Mobilization Forces
Originated as Mahdi Army
Allies
Iraq Iraq
 Syria
 Iran
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Promised Day Brigades
Other Special Groups
Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas
Hezbollah
Opponents Iraq War:
Multi-National Force – Iraq
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Syrian Civil War:
Free Syrian Army
Islamic Front
al-Nusrah Front
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Battles and wars

Iraq War

Iraqi Civil War (2014-present)

Syrian Civil War


Iraq War

Iraqi Civil War (2014-present)

Syrian Civil War

Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH; Arabic: عصائب أهل الحق‎‎ ‘Aṣayib Ahl al-Haq, "League of Righteous People"), also known as the Khazali Network, is an Iraqi Shi'a paramilitary group active in the Iraqi insurgency and Syrian Civil War. During the Iraq War it was known as Iraq's largest "Special Group" (the Americans' term for Iran-backed Shia paramilitaries in Iraq), and claimed responsibility for over 6,000 attacks on American and Coalition forces. The group is currently fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as part of the Popular Moblization Forces. The group is funded and trained by Iran's Quds Force.

Qais al-Khazali split from Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army after the Shi'a uprising in 2004 to create his own Khazali network. When the Mahdi Army signed a cease-fire with the government and the Americans and the fighting stopped, Qais al-Khazalinnnnnnfaction continued fighting, and during the battle Khazali was already issuing his own orders to militiamen without Muqtada al-Sadr's approval. The group's leadership (which includes Qais Khazali, Abd al-Hadi al-Darraji (a politician in Muqtada al-Sadr's Sadr Movement) and Akram al-Kaabi), however, reconciled with al-Sadr in mid-2005. In July 2006, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq was founded and became one of the Special Groups which operated more independently from the rest of the Mahdi Army. It became a completely independent organisation after the Mahdi Army's disbanding after the 2008 Shi'a uprising. In November 2008 when Sadr created the Promised Day Brigade to succeed the Mahdi Army, he asked AAH (and other Special Groups) to join, but they declined.


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