Liwa Ali al-Akbar ( ar, لواء علي الأكبر, Liwāʾ ʿAlī al-Akbar, English:
Ali al-Akbar Brigade) or as the Popular Mobilization Forces' 11th Brigade is an Iraqi Shiite faction part of the
Popular Mobilization Forces
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) ( ar, الحشد الشعبي ''al-Ḥashd ash-Shaʿbī''), also known as the People's Mobilization Committee (PMC) and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), is an Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, transli ...
and affiliated with the
Imam Husayn Shrine
The Imam Husayn Shrine ( ar, مَقَام ٱلْإِمَام ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱبْن عَلِيّ, Maqām al-ʾImām al-Ḥusayn ʾibn ʿAlī) is the mosque and burial site of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Imam of Shia Islam, in the city of ...
in Karbala. It was formed after the fatwa of al-Jihad al-Kafa’i issued by Sayyid
Ali al-Sistani
Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, علي الحسيني السيستاني; fa, , Ali-ye Hoseyni-ye Sistāni; born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is an Iranian–Iraqi Twelver Shia Ayatollah and marja'. He has been described ...
and under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Hussaini Shrine, Sheikh
Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai
Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Salami ( ar, عبد المهدي السلامي; born 1955), commonly known as Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai, is a Shia Muslim scholar, best known for being the official representative of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Ali Al-Sistani in Iraq ...
.
Abu Tahsin al-Salhi
Abu Tahsin al-Salihi ( ar, أبو تحسين الصالحي; 1 July 1953 – 29 September 2017) was an Iraqi veteran sniper. A volunteer in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, he is credited with killing over 384 ISIS members during the War ...
is also from the faction.
See also
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List of armed groups in the Iraqi Civil War
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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Private militias in Iraq
The term militia in contemporary Iraq refers to armed groups that fight on behalf of or as part of the Iraqi government, the Mahdi Army and Badr Organization being two of the biggest. Many predate the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but some have em ...
References
External links
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Liwa Ali al-Akbar :: Jihad Intel*http://al-hashed.net/tag/لواء-علي-الاكبر/
*https://n.annabaa.org/tags/1371/
*https://www.alalamtv.net/news/1896395/
"لواء علي الاكبر" يحرر منطقة البعيجي شمال تكريت بالكامل*http://www.alhikmeh.org/news/?p=143711
Popular Mobilization Forces
Shia Islamist groups
Arab militant groups
Anti-ISIL factions in Iraq
Jihadist groups in Iraq
Axis of Resistance
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