This report examines how the Iran war has reshaped Iraqi politics by bringing key powerful militias that were pragmatically aligned with the Iraqi state into direct confrontation with the Iraqi government. Iraqi militias have targeted Iraqi government forces in federal Iraq and in the Kurdistan Region on multiple occasions in the past month. Iraq Sources’ amplifications of narratives discuss a 12 March likely militia attack on the Iraqi National Intelligence Service in Baghdad. Narratives associated with the spike included government figures’ condemnations of the attack, highlighted that the attack killed an intelligence officer, and called for the government to take action against “armed groups."
