Saraya Al Salam
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Founders | Muqtada al-Sadr |
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Founded | Sadr City |
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Leader | Muqtada al-Sadr |
Part of | Popular Mobilization Forces |
Battles and wars | Iraq War |
Siege of Sadr City | |
Battle of Al Kut | |
Headquarters | Najaf |
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Kufa | |
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Sadr City | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 803079 |
About Saraya Al Salam
The Peace Companies, frequently mistranslated as Peace Brigades in US media, are an Iraqi armed group linked to Iraq's Shia community. They are a 2014 revival of the Mahdi Army that was created by the Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008.