Iraq’s Militias Are in a Struggle for Survival

Iraq’s Militias Are in a Struggle for Survival

They are the last intact members of the so-called “Axis of Resistance.” Following the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the partial dismantling of Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, and then the decapitation of the Iranian regime itself, Iraqi Shiite militias now stand as the final unbroken link in this loose constellation of pro-Iranian armed groups. Patiently cultivated over decades by the Islamic Revol…