The Fatah Alliance ( ar, ائتلاف الفتح, iʾtilāf al-fatḥ), also sometimes translated as the Conquest Alliance, is a political coalition in

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

formed to contest the 2018 general election. The main components are groups involved in the Popular Mobilization Forces which is mainly a state-sponsored umbrella organization made up of Iraqi Shiite Muslims who fought from 2014 to 2017 alongside the

Iraqi Army The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), or the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It was known as the Royal Iraqi Army up until the coup ...

to defeat

ISIL An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...

. It is led by Hadi Al-Amiri, the leader of the

Badr Organization The Badr Organization ( ar, منظمة بدر ''Munaẓẓama Badr''), previously known as the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps, is an Iraqi Shia Islam, Shia Islamism, Islamist political party and military organization headed by Hadi Al-Amiri. The Bad ...

Members

The Fatah Alliance included the Badr Organisation, the Al-Sadiqoun Bloc (the political wing of

Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH; ar, عصائب أهل الحق Aṣaʾib ʾAhl al-Haqq, "League of the Righteous"), also known as the Khazali Network ( ar, شبكة الخزعلي), is a radical Iraqi Shi'a political party and paramilitary group active ...

, AAH), Kata'ib Hezbollah and

Kata'ib al-Imam Ali Kata'ib al-Imam Ali ( ar, كتائب الإمام علي, ''Kataʾib al-ʾImām ʿAlīy''), also known as the Imam Ali Battalions, are the armed wing of the Islamic Movement of Iraq (Harakat al-Iraq al-Islamiyah) and serve as part of the umbrel ...

, all key components of the Hashd. The Fatah Alliance agreed to run jointly with al-Abadi's ''Nasr al-Iraq'' (Victory of Iraq) list, but the agreement fell apart after only 24 hours, reportedly over Abadi's conditions. The Badr Organisation, headed by Hadi Al-Amiri, was previously part of the ruling

State of Law Coalition The State of Law Coalition ( ar, إئتلاف دولة القانون ''I'tilāf Dawlat al-Qānūn''), also known as Rule of Law Coalition, is an Iraqi political coalition formed for the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections by the Prime Minister of ...

and announced their withdrawal from the Alliance in December 2017, and won 22 seats. Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq split from the

Sadrist Movement The Sadrist Movement ( ar, التيار الصدري ') is an Iraqi Islamic national movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr. The movement draws wide support from across Iraqi society and especially from the Shi'a poor in the country. The most important ...

in 2004. It has also been one of the main Iraqi armed groups active in the Syrian Civil War. They have received funding and training from Iran's

Quds Force The Quds Force ( fa, نیروی قدس, niru-ye qods, Jerusalem Force) is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. U.S. Army's Iraq War ...

Controlled by Iran, the deadly militia recruiting Iraq's men to die in Syria
, The Guardian, 12 March 2014 and, like many Sadrists, are reported to have religious allegiance to the Iranian

Grand Ayatollah Marji ( ar, مرجع, transliteration: ''marjiʿ''; plural: ''marājiʿ''), literally meaning "source to follow" or "religious reference", is a title given to the highest level of Twelver Shia authority, a Grand Ayatollah with the authority giv ...

Kazem al-Haeri. AAH formed a political wing, called the Al-Sadiqoun Bloc, to contest the

2014 Iraqi parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 30 April 2014. The elections decided the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister. Electoral system The open list form of party-l ...

, winning one seat.

Electoral results

Iraqi Parliament

They were expected to win 37 seats in the parliament in

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, according to one opinion poll.

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Members

Electoral results

Iraqi Parliament

See also

References