{"id":155231,"date":"2026-06-11T07:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/155231\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:53:17","slug":"iraq-sets-september-deadline-for-integration-of-armed-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/155231\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq sets September deadline for integration of armed groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>             BAGHDAD<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a29563f613bd91eccb07682.jpg\" alt=\"Iraq sets September deadline for integration of armed groups\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi government has announced that the process of transferring weapons held by <a title=\"armed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/armed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">armed<\/a> militias to state control is expected to be completed by the end of September, coinciding with the conclusion of the mandate of U.S.-led coalition forces.<\/p>\n<p>During a press briefing in Baghdad on June 10, Government Spokesperson Haydar al-Abudi said that efforts to collect illegal weapons from non-state armed <a title=\"groups\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/groups\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">groups<\/a> are ongoing<\/p>\n<p>The timeline is aligned with the end of the coalition\u2019s operational presence in the country, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is expected to pay a visit to the United States in the coming period, the spokesperson said, noting that the main purpose of the trip will be to enhance economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>New premier Zaidi has recently urged all armed factions to integrate into official state institutions, stressing that all forces should operate under the authority of the state as part of a unified national framework.<\/p>\n<p>Some armed groups have already signaled willingness to comply with the government\u2019s call and begin steps toward integration into state security structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAGHDAD \u00a0 The Iraqi government has announced that the process of transferring weapons held by armed militias to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[11669,13693,94],"class_list":["post-155231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-armed","tag-groups","tag-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116730401523291898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}