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Factions seek intelligence service and cabinet secretariat posts, and al-Zaidi loses a round in Maysan

Amarah, Iraq ·

Armed factions are preparing to expand into state institutions as they move closer to the intelligence service, while sensitive posts are being vacated for figures linked to them. Under understandings with Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, the groups are expected to give up weapons in exchange for important positions, but the nature of the deal and its enforcement guarantees remain unclear.

Iraq's armed factions, several of them part of the Popular Mobilization Forces, have held influence within state institutions for years, and successive governments have sought to bring weapons under state control.

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