Premier Abadi suggested creating a National Guard as a way to protect the provinces and decentralize power when he came into office in Sep. Legislation to create the Guard is deadlocked in parliament, but some provinces are moving ahead with the idea anyway. Read more here.
When open fighting broke out in Iraq at start of 2014 and militias were deployed many feared that there would be a huge jump in extrajudicial killings with bodies dumped in Baghdad. There was a huge surge in those types of incidents during the summer, but they have since gone down as fears that the capital would be taken receded. Read the whole article here.
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