The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), or Hashed Al-Shaabi, have been trying unsuccessfully for two weeks to organise an official military parade in Baghdad on the anniversary of the PMF’s creation, amid deepening differences between its commander, Abdul Aziz Al-Muhammadawi (Abu Fadak) and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. Kadhimi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Iraq, according to the constitution, refused to allow the parade to proceed on June 13, the ...