The "Imam Ali" Brigades disaffiliated  with the  Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units

 In an official statement, the  Imam Ali Brigades announced the disengagement from the Popular Mobilization Units and the start of the procedures for confining weapons to the state, and that this step comes from "national responsibility and legitimacy" and to preserve "the gains of victory and strengthen the sovereignty of national unity."

The statement noted that the decision came in line with the national desire and the decision of the "Coordination Framework", stressing that the current stage is "the battle to build a strong, capable state" with full sovereignty.

In its statement, the Brigades considered that resistance is "a need, not a profession", and that the requirements of the public interest require the strengthening of official security institutions and the extension of the rule of law by limiting weapons to the state only.

What is the "Imam Ali Brigades"?

The Imam Ali Brigades is one of the prominent armed factions on the Iraqi scene, established in June 2014 as a military wing of the Islamic Movement of Iraq in direct response to the fatwa of the "Jihad al-Kifa'i" issued by the Supreme Religious Authority, Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, to confront the Islamic State.

During the past 12 years, the "Imam Ali Brigades"  have fought pivotal and strategic battles inside Iraq that contributed to the liberation and security of several areas such as Tikrit, Amerli, Tuz Khurmatu, Diyala, Ramadi, west Mosul, and al-Qaim from ISIS.

  Its operations outside Iraq were expanded in 2015 by sending troops and fighters to Syrian territory to take part in military operations and protect the Sayyida Zainab shrine in the capital, Damascus.

Asaib Ahl al-Haq and Muqtada al-Sadr's forces join Iraqi army

Earlier , the Asaib Ahl al-Haq movement announced on Tuesday (June 2nd) the start of practical steps to implement the decision to disengage from the Popular Mobilization Forces, through the formation of a central committee to complete the necessary organizational and administrative procedures, within the framework of the trend towards limiting weapons to the Iraqi state.

The movement stated in an official document that the committee will complete all the requirements and procedures for the implementation of the decision, headed by Jawad Talibawi and the membership of a number of the movement's leaders.

The committee's tasks include conducting a comprehensive inventory of personnel, weapons, vehicles and logistical supplies, as well as organizing liaison mechanisms with the commander-in-chief of the armed forces in accordance with the requirements of the state and its security institutions, it added.

On Wednesday (May 27th), the leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced the complete separation of the military formations affiliated with the "Peace Factions" from the "National Shiite Movement" and their full annexation to the state and the military formations affiliated with the official authorities, and called on all formations affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces to separate from "partisan and sectarian orders" and hand over their weapons to the state, according to him.