He said Islamic State allowed people to leave on Sunday after firing mortars at Popular Mobilisation positions at the airport, and Popular Mobilisation forces responded.
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It referred to the mainly Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation as "patriots".
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"Popular Mobilisation are Iraqi patriots," it said in the statement.
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But it would require a massive mobilisation now to defeat him.
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The passion Mr Schulz inspires could make him a mobilisation machine.
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Deep change generally requires co-operation with governments and social mobilisation.
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A rise in the turnout indicated that the voter mobilisation was successful.
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"We will fight these cowards with a national mobilisation," he said, without elaborating.
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In short, the full mobilisation of the airlines' networks, lobbyists, and war chests.
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Thousands of civilians fled Tal Afar this week as Popular Mobilisation closed in.
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So does the 20th-century sibling of such revolutions: the war of mass-mobilisation.
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Repeated phone calls to three spokesmen of the Popular Mobilisation Forces were not answered.
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But these also fostered solidarity among blacks, and mobilisation during the civil-rights era.
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It includes soldiers, security forces, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and mainly Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation forces.
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A hardline union, the CGT, promises mass mobilisation against the labour changes on September 12th.
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One government regulation calls for the "utilisation and mobilisation of the unused funds of residents".
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He is relying on popular mobilisation: tens of thousands protested against the arrests in Barcelona.
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He said of 110,000 men in the Popular Mobilisation force, 25,000 to 30,000 are Sunnis.
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The Arab spring is just one example of how the internet has facilitated political mobilisation.
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Iraqi government forces and the Tehran-backed Popular Mobilisation launched a surprise offensive on Oct.
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Popular Mobilisation is a separate force from the regular army and officially reports to Abadi.
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Popular Mobilisation, or Hashid Shaabi, will stay outside the town, enforcing a blockade, he said.
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"Depending upon individual situations, PSBs should access the capital market for mobilisation of capital," he said.
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The IRGC is the main backer of the Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary force known as Popular Mobilisation.
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The defining features of Russian political life are not mobilisation and politicisation, but apathy and apoliticism.
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Iraqi government forces and the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces launched a surprise offensive on Oct.
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The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), the umbrella grouping of mostly Shi'ite militias, numbers around 150,000 men.
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So-called "mobilisation theory" posits that an extremist nominee could increase turnout among its party's voters.
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In north-west Iraq, the Iranian-backed Hashad al-Shabi, or Popular Mobilisation Units (PMUs), are ascendant.
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Mobilisation exercises are full body movements that slowly take the joints through their full range of motion.
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One Indian expert says that a full mobilisation of the Indian army should not be ruled out.
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Spokesmen for the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilisation forces could not be immediately contacted for comment.
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The response was piecemeal, lacking a grand plan, strategic vision or large-scale mobilisation of public money.
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"We congratulate the military and the Popular Mobilisation Forces," a grouping of mostly Shi'ite paramilitaries, he said.
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Official figures suggested the strike was on a similar scale to the first major mobilisation on Dec.
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Mobilisation in some quarters might demobilise others, who conclude they can free-ride on the climate-champions' efforts.
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At least 10 other fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) are missing, a local militia commander said.
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The Tea Party rallies were an impressive mobilisation but they pale in comparison to the recent women's marches.
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The Bolsheviks' first model was the German economy of sacrifice and mass mobilisation for the first world war.
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There would also be great resistance among Afghan Shias to any sort of mobilisation against the Afghan state.
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The same concerns, only more so, apply to the Shia-dominated Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilisation Units.
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An Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia, the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), crossed into Syria to help during the battle.
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They have taken down the billboards of Iran's ayatollahs which loomed over Baghdad's squares when popular mobilisation was launched.
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If you can't, then jump on the treadmill or bike for five minutes before you move onto the mobilisation.
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Mobilisation often explodes, seemingly at random, according to the authors, most of whom work at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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"Popular Mobilisation fighters should be encouraged because they will be the hope of country and the region," he added.
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A third line of argument mostly accepts Keynes's diagnosis but quarrels with his most famous prescription: public mobilisation of investment.
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Mr Asmolov argues that this self-mobilisation instilled a sense of agency in ordinary citizens while exposing the government's shortcomings.
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Islamic State still controls the road between Mosul and Tal Afar, he said in comments on the Popular Mobilisation website.
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Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, who oversaw the formation of the Popular Mobilisation units receded from public view mid-2015.
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Enterprising rabble-rousers, he fears, could use a mix of vote-buying and ethnic mobilisation to win control of local resources.
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He said the ruling was a "coup d'état against justice" and called for a mobilisation to "re-establish legality in Colombia".
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This process and especially its channels of communication and mobilisation (like the identitarian movement, which I profiled here) deserve extensive scrutiny.
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As the Sunni jihadists surged south, Shia militias declared a hashad, or "popular mobilisation", drafting in tens of thousands of volunteers.
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Judge Llarena accuses them of "contemptuous and systematic" flouting of judicial orders, and the mobilisation of crowds to thwart police action.
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Amiri's bloc has repeatedly nominated Falih Fayadh, who once led the umbrella grouping of militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces.
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"Peshmerga repelled the attack and pushed Popular Mobilisation back in to Rabi'a," tweeted KRG President Masoud Barzani's media advisor, Hemin Hawrami.
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The law voted on Saturday would turn the Popular Mobilisation units into a separate military corps, reporting to the prime minister.
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Robert Peston said the government was likely to enforce a "wartime-style" mobilisation effort in the next five to 20 days.
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Jucá says Lula's return, and the mobilisation of social movements and unions close to him, would damage the country's economic outlook.
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Some pollsters said voter turnout above 70 percent could signal efficient opposition mobilisation, which may cause Fidesz to lose its parliamentary majority.
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As well as the Kurdish Peshmerga, Shia popular-mobilisation forces, most of them backed by Iran, are keen to join the action.
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Mrs Clinton ran a lavishly funded and highly professional campaign, using the sophisticated voter identification and mobilisation methods perfected by Mr Obama.
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Two armed groups closely linked to Iran—the Popular Mobilisation Units (or Hashd al-Shaabi) and the Federal Police—led the assault.
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Given the deep sectarian divisions, limiting the role of the Shia "Popular Mobilisation Forces" in Anbar remains a priority for the Americans.
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The push for the 3-out-of-3 law is an example of an unprecedented popular mobilisation against corruption in Latin America.
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"A mix of conflict fatigue, cautiousness and internal divide has so far forestalled a military mobilisation," said Emad Badi, a Libya researcher.
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They were joined five days ago by the Popular Mobilisation forces, which launched their offensive towards Tal Afar on Mosul's western flank.
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The paramilitaries, or Popular Mobilisation Forces, are mostly trained and backed by Iran, so Abadi risks angering his most powerful regional backer.
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Units from the Iraqi army, Counter-Terrorism Services, Sunni tribal and Iranian-backed Popular Mobilisation forces entered the area on Friday morning.
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This September saw "the biggest climate mobilisation in history," according to organizers, as millions of people participated in a Global Climate Strike.
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If his childhood instilled King's belief in a loving God, Niebuhr's work tempered his idealism and contributed to his strategy of mass mobilisation.
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He has also taken advantage of support from Democratic figures like Joe Biden to capitalise on the party's apparent edge in voter mobilisation.
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Kojo is one of the villages recaptured over the past few days by Popular Mobilisation, an Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary force trained by Iran.
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It came under the full control of Iraqi government forces and mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in October.
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At least five other fighters from a government-affiliated militia known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) were critically wounded, a local militia commander said.
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Some pollsters said voter turnout above 70 percent could signal efficient mobilisation by the opposition, which may cause Fidesz to lose its parliamentary majority .
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The role of Kurdish peshmerga forces and Shi'ite Muslim militias from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) is unresolved and remains a point of contention.
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The Fallujah operation depends on so-called Popular Mobilisation Units, mainly Shia militias, most of which are supported directly by Iran, and local police.
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In Iraq, the group faced mainly U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, and Iranian-trained Shi'ite paramilitaries known as Popular Mobilisation.
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Hemin Hawrami, a top aide to KRG President Masoud Barzani, tweeted that people had fled "looting and sectarian oppression" inflicted by Popular Mobilisation militia.
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They have a 40,000-strong Praetorian guard in the form of Momentum, which has a unique ability to combine mass mobilisation with bureaucratic manoeuvring.
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During the battle, Hezbollah forces entered Iraq and the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces crossed into Syria to help capture the town, the commander said.
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Instead Abadi hailed the Iranian-trained and backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a group of Shi'ite militias, many of whom are loyal to Iran.
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But mounting public resistance toward the mobilisation of free labour and supplies may spell trouble for Kim's ambition to transform Samjiyon, defectors and observers say.
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"The exceptional mobilisation of thousands of guards on very short notice has meant substantial training, planning, subcontracting and overtime costs," Securitas said in a statement.
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Participation in the election by members of Iraq's Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, collectively known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), has been hotly debated in Iraq.
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The authorities had to draft in hundreds of extra officers from forces outside London in the biggest police mobilisation since riots across Britain in 2011.
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Unable to deliver economic growth, the Kremlin needs to cook up reasons to keep the population in a constant state of mobilisation against external threats.
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The Popular Mobilisation reports officially to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and its move to Syria would formalize its participation in the Syrian civil war.
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Only one of these approaches offers a long-term path to power, as well as the popular mobilisation necessary to entrench democracy after its establishment.
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The government and the Popular Mobilisation forces say a limited number of violations occurred and were investigated, but they deny abuses were widespread and systematic.
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Iraqi forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries, known as Popular Mobilisation, are deployed south and west of Kirkuk, in areas previously under the control of Islamic State.
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Les grandes marches de l'époque avaient consacré l'esthétique de ce front républicain et elles ont laissé dans leur sillage une mythologie de la mobilisation citoyenne.
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Others killed in the airstrike included Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was deputy commander of Iraq&aposs paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF).
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"All this is pre-electoral mobilisation," said Ajai Sahni of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management, which tracks security issues across South Asia.
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The Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an alliance of militias, earlier on Wednesday denied it had crossed the Syrian border and was attacking Albu Kamal.
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In late 2017, the U.S. State Department described the mass mobilisation of forced labour as one of the human rights abuses underwriting North Korea's weapons programme.
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The level of mobilisation needed to fight the First World War made that inevitable; governments could hardly ask people to fight if they could not vote.
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Those killed were members of the Tribal Mobilisation Forces, a network of Sunni militias that back the government in its fight against Islamic State, he said.
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But Xi, again seeking to prevent global panic, said China's strong mobilisation capacity and rich experience in public health would enable it to beat the coronavirus.
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Uganda's fiscal reforms will continue to be supported by an IMF Policy Support Instrument and economic programme focused on revenue mobilisation and public financial management reforms.
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A spokesman for the Popular Mobilisation, Ahmed al-Asadi, said on Saturday the militias would be ready to go to Syria, after the battle of Mosul.
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Known as the "mobilisation" phase of the license process, Zopa should eventually be granted a full licence once it meets various conditions set by the regulators.
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Iraqi forces and Shi'ite Muslim paramilitaries, known as Popular Mobilisation, are deployed south and west of Kirkuk, in areas previously under the control of Islamic State.
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The offensive on Hawija is being carried out by U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops and Iranian-trained and armed Shi'ite paramilitary groups known as Popular Mobilisation.
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Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) captured Albukamal on the Euphrates River from Islamic State toward the end of 2017.
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The statement issued by the defence council of Lebanon, which is already facing an economic crisis, called for a "general mobilisation" but did not provide details.
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Candidates are tripping over themselves to convey their plans' ambition, from Joe Biden's $1.7trn proposal for a "clean-energy revolution" to Bernie Sanders's $16.3trn "nationwide mobilisation".
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The Popular Mobilisation Forces have been officially included in Iraq's governmental forces but many of them still maintain loyalties to their former leaders and political groups.
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A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the U.S. military was concerned that Popular Mobilisation Forces could retaliate against American forces in Iraq.
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On Friday, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani praised the forces battling Islamic State, including thousands of Shi'ite fighters in the Popular Mobilisation paramilitary forces, for their sacrifices.
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The Normandy landings were months in the planning and were kept secret from Hitler and his forces despite a huge trans-Atlantic mobilisation of industry and manpower.
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Amiri said the Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary coalition known as Hashid Shaabi, or Popular Mobilisation, does not exclude the possibility of moving into Syria to fight Islamic State.
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It represents, according to her, "my commitment to a Green New Deal"—one that applies the analogy of wartime mobilisation during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency to modern times.
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Many Shia volunteers died delivering Sunnis from the barbarous rule of IS. About 45,27 Sunnis mustered alongside the Shia-led Hashd al-Shaabi, or "popular mobilisation units".
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Some require the exercise of ingenuity and discretion by small teams (eg, inventing a new vaccine); some demand the programmatic mobilisation of legions of people (immunisation drives).
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During 15 days as a volunteer teacher in a remote, mountain village, he complains that party-picked legislators are all "fucking CEOs" and political mobilisation is "brainwashing".
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Regular Iraqi army units, Sunni tribal forces and Iranian-backed Popular Mobilisation are taking part in the offensive toward the Syrian border, Iraq's Joint Operations Command said.
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Iraq's parliament passed a law in 2016 to bring an assortment of Shi'ite militia groups known collectively as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) into the state apparatus.
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It fights under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a mostly Iranian-backed coalition of Shi'ite militias that played a role in combating Islamic State.
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The Iraqi militia leader killed in the strike, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was the deputy commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) umbrella body of paramilitary groups.
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In a statement, French President Emmanuel Macron praised the "effective mobilisation" of the Burkina Faso security forces and said he will discuss the situation with Kabore later Monday.
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The Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces of mainly Shi'ite militias joined the campaign on Saturday, launching an offensive to cut off any supply or escape to the west.
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According to the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels, no other country in the EU approaches this level of anti-trade mobilisation; only Austria comes close.
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Citing close ties to Tal Afar's Turkmen population, Turkey has threatened to intervene to prevent revenge killings should Popular Mobilisation forces, known as Hashid Shaabi, storm the town.
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Several hours after Asadi's announcement, Islamic State said one of its militants drove a bomb-laden car into a group of Popular Mobilisation fighters, killing 20 of them.
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The mobilisation of talent from the private sector, including universities, could help address the crisis, especially in countries where forming a bureaucratic chain of command is second nature.
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Ali al-Hussaini, a spokesman for the paramilitary groups known as Popular Mobilisation, did not give indications about their next move following the Kurds rejection of the warning .
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Mr Puigdemont's is plebiscitarian and based on popular mobilisation, whereas Spain's constitutionalist politicians defend a representative democracy that is anchored in the rule of law and respects minority rights.
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French pollsters, who do have an excellent track record, are registering record levels of undecided voters and—crucially—stronger mobilisation for Ms Le Pen than for any other candidate.
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"In order to sustain spending of anything close to 7.94 trillion naira, Nigeria will need to do a great deal more to boost non-oil revenue mobilisation," said Khan.
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Grouped inside the umbrella of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) or al-Hashid al-Shaabi, they formed after an edict by Sistani and helped turn the Sunni jihadi tide.
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The officer was a member of the Tribal Mobilisation Forces, a network of Sunni militias that backed the government in its fight against Islamic State, the security sources said.
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"The wide mobilisation of the hardline groups and the real prospect of Raisi winning scared many people into coming out to vote," said Nasser, a 52-year-old journalist.
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In his opening remarks at the meeting with Tillerson, Abadi said Popular Mobilisation "is part of the Iraqi institutions," rejecting accusations that it is acting as an Iranian proxy.
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Kojo and the other villages of the Sinjar mountain region will be returned to the Yazidi community, a Popular Mobilisation leader, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, told Iraqi state television.
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Abadi praised the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, whose fatwa calling volunteers to fight Islamic State led to PMF's creation.
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Mohandes also oversees Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups mostly consisting of Iran-backed Shi'ite militias that was formally integrated into Iraq's armed forces.
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Unions had called the mobilisation hoping to regain momentum after one of the biggest waves of strikes and protests in decades had started to tail off in recent days.
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"Although our national debt is within sustainable limits, we need to increase our domestic resource mobilisation to bring down our debt-revenue ratio over the medium term," he said.
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In Mr Putin's mind, Russia's actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine merely mirrored Western "hybrid" tactics, including special forces, disinformation and mobilisation of the protest potential of the local people.
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Erdogan has urged Turks to sell dollars to prop up the lira, calling for a "sense of national mobilisation", while the central bank has taken steps to tighten lira liquidity.
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The leader of the Badr Organisation, the largest of the Popular Mobilisation militias, said his forces would cut off the main western supply route on Thursday, leaving Islamic State surrounded.
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"We are concerned about continued military build-up of Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces towards the Kurdistan Region," said the Kurdistan Region Security Council in a statement.
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The Shia militias that make up the bulk of Iraq's "popular mobilisation forces" have been relegated to a supporting role in the fight for Sunni Fallujah, which makes political sense.
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A prominent leader of the Popular Mobilisation units said Shi'ite forces had linked up with peshmerga fighters west of Mosul and completed the encirclement of the city and Tal Afar.
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Furthermore, by imposing a levy on SFI deposits for the first time, the SFI Fund will help reduce the cost advantage that SFIs have over commercial banks in deposit mobilisation.
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"In the west, the initial idea was to have a corridor ... but the Hashid (Popular Mobilisation) insisted on closing this loophole to prevent them going to Syria," he told Reuters.
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In all, around 100,000 people are fighting on the government side, including Iraqi soldiers and police, "peshmerga" troops of the autonomous Kurdish region and fighters in the Popular Mobilisation units.
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Unions called the nationwide mobilisation hoping for a new jolt to regain momentum, after a nationwide movement of rolling strikes and protests had started to tail off in recent days.
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Lalesh is affiliated with Popular Mobilisation, an armed group formed mainly of Iran-trained Shi'ite paramilitaries, with the participation of smaller forces from other communities including Sunnis, Christians and Yazidis.
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It was at his call that Shi'ite militias regrouped in 2014 in a coalition known as Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), to stem Islamic State's stunning advance through the north and west.
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has built Shi'ite militias at the heart of the so-called Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) into a structure to rival the Iraqi army and security forces.
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"The army's 9th armoured division, the Federal Police, the Emergency Response division and (..) Popular Mobilisation liberated Hawija," said a statement from the joint operations commander, Lieutenant-General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah.
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The Shi'ite militias, known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) helped Baghdad defend the country against the Islamic State militant group when Iraqi military and police divisions deserted en masse in 2014.
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Mr Abadi seems sensibly intent on restricting the Kurds' Peshmerga ("those who confront death")and the Shias' Hashd al-Shaabi ("popular mobilisation forces") to laying a siege on the city's outskirts.
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The totalitarian states Keynes worked so hard to defeat showed that the "central mobilisation of resources" and "the regimentation of the individual" could destroy personal liberty, as he himself once noted.
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Since launching their advance towards Tal Afar on Saturday, the Popular Mobilisation forces have taken over several villages in an area about 60 km (40 miles) southeast of their final target.
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In retaliation, Iraqi government forces and the allied, Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation militia recaptured the oil city of Kirkuk and other disputed territories held by Peshmerga just outside official KRG boundaries.
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A Jat leader said protesters had reached a deal with state and central government leaders to end their mobilisation, in which 16 people have been killed and more than 150 injured.
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One of the closest groups to Iran within Popular Mobilisation, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, reacted to Tillerson's comment by saying it would be Americans who will be forced to leave Iraq.
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The Iraqi military estimates there are 5,000 to 6,000 insurgents in Mosul facing a 100,000-strong force made up of Iraqi government troops, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation units.
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He repeated his call to Turks to sell foreign currency, urging a "sense of national mobilisation", and evoked the July coup attempt, when people took to the streets to block tanks.
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The strikes took place near the border with Syria, said a statement on Sunday from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a state umbrella grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim factions.
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Still, the battle plan did not foresee closing the road to the west of Mosul until Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi agreed in late October to despatch the Popular Mobilisation militias.
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Also killed was the man who met him at the airport: Abu Mahdi Muhandis, deputy head of Iraqs Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), the Iraqi government's umbrella group for the country's militias.
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Among them is his predecessor, Nouri al-Maliki, and his cohorts in Iraq's assortment of predominantly Shia militias, which are collectively known as the Hashd al-Shaabi, or popular mobilisation forces (PMF).
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The strikes took place 15 km (9 miles) away from the border, said a statement from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a state umbrella grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim factions.
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The book has little to say about the political mobilisation needed for so dramatic a reform, an omission which echoes its strikingly terse explanation for why inequality exploded in the first place.
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"While Shi'ites make up a majority in the Popular Mobilisation, it also has in its ranks Sunnis," the spokesman added, denying allegations that the government is only supporting Shi'ites, and not Sunnis.
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The Communist Party of Russia has claimed that the national team need "a Stalinist mobilisation" to help them find "mental, physical, hard strength" after losing 3-0 to Wales on Monday evening.
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On Monday, an official of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) security council said Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed Popular Mobilisation paramilitaries were deploying tanks and artillery in Rabi'a, northwest of Mosul.
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Mohandes is a senior commander of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella grouping of paramilitary organizations mostly consisting of Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militias that were integrated into Iraq's armed forces.
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Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the Turkish military buildup, together with information about further mobilisation of Turkey-backed Syrian rebels, indicated that "an attack is imminent".
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Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, a grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, said a U.S. air strike on the Iraqi border with Syria killed 22 of its members and wounded 12 others.
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The forces loyal to Haftar said they destroyed a Turkish drone parked at Tripoli's only working airport on Sunday and declared a "general mobilisation" as tensions between Ankara and the eastern administration mounted.
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The town of Hawija and the surrounding areas were captured in an offensive carried out by U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops and Iranian-trained and armed Shi'ite paramilitary groups known as Popular Mobilisation.
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The group that has brought the Dutch construction and agriculture sectors to a standstill is a tiny non-profit, Mobilisation for the Environment (MOB), that operates on a shoestring budget with seven staff.
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Such numbers drive home to Democrats the importance of mobilisation; and at least it is easier and cheaper to mobilise a non-voting supporter than to convince a Republican to cross the aisle.
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That would cut off any chance of the jihadists retreating into - or being reinforced from - their positions in neighboring Syria, Ahmed al-Asadi, a spokesman of the Popular Mobilisation, told a news conference.
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Supported by an IMF Policy Support Instrument, the Rwandan government has adopted a policy framework focused on increasing domestic revenue mobilisation to facilitate a shift in external donor flows from grants to loans.
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So when the roar of Indian warplanes returned to Pakistan's skies on February 26th, it marked the most dangerous moment in South Asia since a months-long mass mobilisation of troops in 2002.
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The Popular Mobilisation force, formed in 2014 to help push back Islamic State's sweeping advance, officially report to Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's Shi'ite-led government, but has very close links to Iran.
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"Iraq has shown zero signs of de-escalating," said a statement by the KRG Security Council about the deployment, adding that units being brought to the region include Iranian-backed Popular Mobilisation paramilitaries.
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The Popular Mobilisation units deny having sectarian aims or committing widespread abuse and say they saved the nation when the army crumbled in the face of Islamic State's lightning advance two years ago.
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"We're receiving dangerous messages that Iraqi forces, including Popular Mobilisation and Federal Police are preparing a major attack .. on Kurdistan," said the KRG 's Security Council in tweet confirmed by a Kurdish official.
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"We're receiving dangerous messages that Iraqi forces, including Popular Mobilisation and Federal Police, are preparing a major attack .. on Kurdistan," said the KRG's Security Council in a tweet confirmed by a Kurdish official.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Oct 5 that his government wanted to avoid clashes with the Kurds, but Popular Mobilisation leaders have repeatedly threatened to oust Kurdish forces from Kirkuk.
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Identified now as a chaste, never promiscuous, completely dedicated general and leader of men, as an activist he displayed an inner mobilisation of force and direction of power in the social, political field.
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Mr Warner has taken on many of the fund-raising and voter-mobilisation duties that would ordinarily fall to Ralph Northam, the governor, who was battered by a black face scandal in February.
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It was one of a series of explosions in recent weeks at weapons depots, bases or positions belonging to factions within the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), Iraq's umbrella of mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups.
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"China has a strong mobilisation capacity, rich experience in responding to public health incidents and is confident and capable of winning the battle for epidemic prevention and control," the report paraphrased him as saying.
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Mobilisation (2.5 minutes) This part of the workout aims to mobilise the joints to ensure you have a good range of movement and to make sure your body is ready for the upcoming exercises.
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Jaafar Hussaini, the spokesman for the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia, one of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighting alongside the Iraqi army against Islamic State, was speaking to Lebanese television channel al-Mayadin.
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But complaints from fighters and commanders in the National Mobilisation force about lack of weapons from the Baghdad government highlights sectarian faultlines that could undermine the offensive and chances for sectarian and ethnic harmony.
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On Saturday thousands of Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia fighters, known as the Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces, joined the Mosul offensive, launching a campaign to take territory to the west of the city.
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The militias, which helped Iraqi and U.S.-led international coalition forces drive out occupying Islamic State militants under an umbrella grouping known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), have broad influence in Iraqi politics.
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On Wednesday, during the battle, Hezbollah forces entered Iraq and the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces crossed into Syria to help capture the town, a commander in the pro-Damascus alliance told Reuters on Wednesday.
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The leader of the Badr Organisation, the largest of the Shi'ite militias that make up the Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces, had said earlier he hoped to seal off Mosul's western flank on Thursday.
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A lawmaker from a grouping of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a umbrella group of Iran-backed paramilitaries, said moves could now include sacking security chiefs in Baghdad and provinces where violence broke out.
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Popular Mobilisation, a paramilitary force trained in Iran and supporting the Iraqi government in the region, was not involved in the violence that happened in the city, spokesman Karim Nuri told Reuters in Baghdad.
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Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists, which reject coexistence with Israel, called last week for a new Palestinian uprising, but any such mass-mobilisation has yet to be seen in the West Bank or East Jerusalem.
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Haider al-Abadi, the caretaker prime minister, has sought American backing for a second term by suspending Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, Iran's man commanding the Popular Mobilisation Committee, which oversees the country's plethora of militias.
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Tillerson arrived on Monday hours after the Iraqi government rejected his call to send home the Popular Mobilisation, an Iran-backed force that helped defeat Islamic State and capture the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk.
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Saturday's announcement by the Shi'ite militias added another force to the coalition of fighters seeking to crush Islamic State in Iraq, but will also raise concerns about the role the Popular Mobilisation fighters will play.
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Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, a grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, also said on Monday a U.S. air strike on the Iraqi border with Syria killed 22 of its members and wounded 12 others.
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Troops from the Iraqi army and mainly Shi'ite paramilitaries known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) were taking part in the campaign against militants hiding in a large strip of border land, Iraqi military officials said.
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Special forces who swept in from the east have already entered the city, while peshmerga forces are sealing off northeastern flanks and mainly Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation forces are trying to cut off the western side.
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The attack on Tal Afar has been so far executed by Popular Mobilisation, a coalition made up mainly of Iranian-trained Shi'ite paramilitary groups whose involvement in the Mosul offensive sparked fears of sectarian killings.
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A military statement said Iraqi forces launched an operation pursuing "terrorist elements" who had attacked a group of fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces - the umbrella group of Shi'ite militias - near the town of Makhmour.
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An Iraqi military statement later said no Popular Mobilisation Forces or other Iraqi troops tasked with securing the Iraqi-Syrian border had been hit by the air strike, and it had taken place inside Syria.
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BAGHDAD, Oct 17 (Reuters) - An Iraqi Yazidi group affiliated with Iraq's Shi'ite-led Popular Mobilisation took full control on Tuesday of the Yazidi city of Sinjar, in the north west of the country, residents told Reuters.
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The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a grouping of Iraq's mostly Shi'ite paramilitary groups, said the United States had allowed four Israeli drones to enter the region accompanying U.S. forces and carry out missions on Iraqi territory.
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Ms Abrams embraced identity politics—she contributed an article to the current issue of Foreign Affairs entitled "Identity politics strengthens democracy"—and made registration and mobilisation of young and non-white voters central to her campaign.
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But the goal of party politics is not mobilisation; it is victory, and the party's centrist wing, quiet as it is now, worries that full-throated progressivism may prove a hard sell at the ballot box.
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Retail prices rose in Mosul last week after Popular Mobilisation, a force of mainly Iranian-backed pro-government Shi'ite paramilitaries, cut the road linking the Iraqi and Syrian parts of the "caliphate", Mosul's main supply route.
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The slow progress was overshadowed by the sectarian political quarrel that erupted in Baghdad on Saturday when Shi'ite lawmakers forced a law through parliament legalizing the mainly Iranian-backed paramilitary units known as Popular Mobilisation forces.
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The Sunni militant group said it had killed 35 members of Shi'ite paramilitaries known as Popular Mobilisation Forces but the Interior Ministry had earlier said the attack targeted civilians and did not provide official casualty figures.
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Popular Mobilisation units, a coalition of mostly Iranian-backed militias, are trying to encircle Tal Afar, a largely ethnic Turkmen town, as part of the offensive to capture Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, a grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, said on Monday a U.S. air strike on the Iraqi border with Syria killed 22 of its members and wounded 12 others.
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However, an Iraqi military statement later said no Popular Mobilisation Forces or other Iraqi troops tasked with securing the Iraqi-Syrian border had been hit by the air strike, and it had taken place inside Syria.
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Speaking after a meeting on Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, Tillerson said it was time for the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation forces and their Iranian advisers to "go home".
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Trained and armed by Iran, the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation forces often supported Iraqi government units in the fight against the militants who were effectively defeated in July when a U.S.-backed offensive captured their stronghold Mosul.
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He pointed to the "decisive role" played by Hezbollah and the group's leader Seyed Hassan Nasrallah and highlighted the thousands of Iraqi Shi'ite volunteers, known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces, who have fought Islamic State in Iraq.
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To reduce this risk and protect human civilisation, a massive global mobilisation of resources is needed in the coming decade to build a zero-emissions industrial system and set in train the restoration of a safe climate.
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"There is cooperation between ... the army, federal police, Hashid and counter-terrorism (forces) and also the (local Sunni) tribes," said Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Badr Organisation, the most powerful group within the Popular Mobilisation forces.
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"With debt vulnerabilities rising in the region, sub-Saharan African countries will need to further rely on sustainable sources of financing, making domestic revenue mobilisation one of the most urgent policy challenges for the region," it said.
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"The Sunni endowment chief doesn't accept the idea that the Shi'ite endowment can take land in Mosul," said Hayder Abu Hadma, a deputy commander in the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), the official grouping of Iraq's Shi'ite paramilitaries.
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A spokesman for the Shi'ite militias, known as the Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces, said thousands of fighters "started operations this morning to clean up the hotbeds of Daesh (Islamic State) in the western parts of Mosul".
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Sunni members of parliament boycotted the session held on Saturday, objecting to the existence of armed groups outside the army and the police, and worrying that Popular Mobilisation will enhance Shi'ite majority rule and Iran's regional influence.
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The Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces are deployed in the arid region west of Mosul as part of a wider military campaign to retake the largest city under Islamic State control in Iraq or neighboring Syria.
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The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) - Iraq's umbrella grouping of mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitaries backed by Iran - played a key role defeating IS and formally became part of the armed forces last year, reporting to the prime minister.
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Bad weather and heavy rain at the port of Johor Bahru in Malaysia interfered with the equipment and crew mobilisation process, delaying the ship's arrival at the crash site until Wednesday, the airline said late on Sunday.
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He is the commander of foreign operations for Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards who provide training and guns to Popular Mobilisation The city of Kirkuk, the airbase and their immediate surroundings, including the oilfields, are under Kurdish control.
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Israeli officials suggested recently they viewed Iraq, whose main ally is Iran, as more of a threat than in recent years, but have not directly commented on the recent blasts at Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) sites in Iraq.
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Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a grouping of Iraq's mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups, many of which are backed by Iran, on Wednesday blamed recent blasts at their weapons depots and bases on the United States and Israel.
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PARIS/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called on Iraq to dismantle all militias, including the government-sanctioned, Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a rare public call to do so by a major Western leader.
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All large-scale incidents of youth mobilisation for political protest in China over the 20th century occurred under conditions of a "youth bulge" when 15- to 25-year-olds made up more than 30% of the adult population.
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In the 19th century the speedy victory of the Prussian army over France in 1870 convinced European general staffs that rapid mobilisation by rail, quick-firing artillery and a focus on attack would make wars short and decisive.
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The adjustment relies on higher mobilisation of non-oil revenues, through removal of tax exemptions, a wider tax base, improved tax collection, the removal of oil and electricity subsidies, and structural fiscal reforms, including the rationalisation of spending.
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The group is demanding the government call a national emergency mobilisation to shift its net zero target to 2025 and hold a Citizens' Assembly to determine the economic trade-offs that such a rapid decarbonisation programme would entail.
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Bern has imposed border controls, urged people to stay at home and summoned army medical teams in the biggest military mobilisation since World War Two to help the beleaguered health care system, which relies heavily on foreign professionals.
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Switzerland, a neighbour of hard-hit Italy, has imposed border controls, urged people to stay home and summoned army medical teams in the biggest military mobilisation since World War Two to help its beleaguered health care system cope.
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Dr. Bruce Aylward, head of the joint WHO-Chinese mission on the outbreak, told reporters on return to Geneva that China's "extraordinary mobilisation" to handle the virus outbreak showed how aggressive policy steps could curb the disease's spread.
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Muhandis, who founded the Shi'ite Kataib Hezbollah militia in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, was de facto leader of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella body of all Iraq's mostly Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias.
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The Popular Mobilisation Forces, an umbrella grouping of the militias which have been officially integrated into Iraq's armed forces, said 62 militiamen and civilians were wounded by the tear gas and stun grenades fired to disperse the crowd.
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Units from the Iraqi army, Counter-Terrorism Services, Sunni tribal and Iranian-backed Popular Mobilisation forces (PMF) are participating in an offensive to recapture al-Qaim and Rawa, two towns which lie on the border area with Syria.
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The Popular Mobilisation Forces, an umbrella grouping of the militias that have been officially integrated into Iraq's armed forces, said 62 militiamen and civilians were wounded by the tear gas and stun grenades fired to disperse the crowd.
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Amiri was commander of the Popular Mobilisation Forces, a coalition of Iranian-backed militias that played a large role in defeating Islamic State after a call to arms by Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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Popular Mobilisation, formed mainly by Iranian-trained Shi'ite groups, gave the Peshmerga until midnight local time (2100 GMT Saturday) to leave a position north of the Maktab Khalid junction, the official from the Kurdistan Regional Government's Security Council said.
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"It's the biggest military mobilisation of navy, ground and air forces, as well as medical staff from military-affiliated hospitals and medical students since China started its opening-up reforms in 1978," Beijing-based military expert Zhou Chenming said.
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PARAMILITARY POWER The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) - Iraq's umbrella grouping of mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitaries backed by Iran - played a key role defeating IS and formally became part of the armed forces last year, reporting to the prime minister.
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Mais voici qu'après quatre mois de mobilisation, alors que le grand débat, lancé le 15 janvier, était censé se clore ce vendredi, les Gilets jaunes semblent être en perte de vitesse, autour des ronds-points et dans les sondages.
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Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a grouping of Iraq's mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups, many of which are backed by Iran, on Wednesday blamed a series of recent blasts at their weapons depots and bases on the United States and Israel.
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"It must also be enacted upon official security forces that use weapons without permission or mercy; these forces are still young and need rehabilitation," he said, referring to the mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite militias collectively known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF).
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Popular Mobilisation, known locally by its Arabic name Hashid Shaabi, has said it plans to use Tal Afar base to take the battle against Islamic State into Syria, fighting on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran.
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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State militants ambushed a convoy of pro-government militia fighters near the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk late on Sunday, killing at least 27 of them, the government-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces said on Monday.
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Abu Mahmoud, who covers his face so that Islamic State militants don't target his family, hopes he and other men in the National Mobilisation force will capture Mosul and rescue its residents in an operation expected to start within weeks.
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Shi'ite lawmakers wanted more spending allocated to the southern oil-producing, predominantly Shi'ite, provinces as well as greater salaries and benefits for the Iran-backed Shi'ite militias known as Popular Mobilisation Forces, who helped Iraq's security forces defeat Islamic State.
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The oil city of Kirkuk is under Peshmerga control while Baiji, which has an oil refinery, is held by the Badr Organisation, the largest component of the Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation Forces coalition that assembled in 2014 to fight Islamic State.
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Three members of the paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and two policemen were killed in an attack in the Sayed Gharib area north of Salahuddin province's Dujail district, 50 km (30 miles) north of Baghdad, late on Wednesday, police said.
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"At 10 pm last night a U.S. plane hit a standing headquarters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces defending the border strip with Syria, using two guided missiles, which led to the martyrdom of 22 fighters," it said in a statement.
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The villages taken by the Popular Mobilisation paramilitary force include Kojo, where Islamic State fighters abducted hundreds of Yazidi women in 2014, including Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, recipients of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.
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"This emergency mobilisation of ordinary citizens, driven to action by the threat of climate breakdown and ecological collapse, will demand the government take immediate action to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gases to net zero by 2025," the group said.
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Popular Mobilisation, formed mainly by Iranian-trained Shi'ite groups, gave the Peshmerga until midnight local time (2100 GMT Saturday) to leave a position north of the Maktab Khalid junction, the official from the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Security Council said.
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BRUSSELS, March 5 (Reuters) - European Union states are mulling radical measures to cope with the coronavirus outbreak, including the mobilisation of retired healthcare workers and medical students to help hospitals handle growing numbers of patients, an EU official said on Thursday.
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Among the steps was an offensive by Iraqi government forces and the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces that took back the oil city of Kirkuk and other disputed territories from the control from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) last month.
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What began nearly a year ago as an isolated incidence of popular mobilisation among the Oromo people, who make up at least a third of the population and opposed a since-shelved plan to expand Addis Ababa into their farmland, has spread.
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"It is essential that there is a gradual demilitarisation, in particular of the Popular Mobilisation that established itself in the last few years in Iraq, and that all militias be gradually dismantled," he told a Paris news conference held with Iraqi Kurdish leaders.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said the town of Tal Afar, which the Shi'ite forces say they will recapture, is Turkmen - inhabited by people with strong cultural and historical links to Turkey - and said Ankara would act if the Popular Mobilisation forces "unleash terror" there.
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In the video, the men identify themselves as members of Iraq's police or the Popular Mobilisation Forces, an umbrella grouping of mostly Shi'ite Iran-backed militias that fought with government forces against Islamic State and nominally report to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
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The economic power of the middle classes helped get them the vote in 1832; the power of industrial workers, though strike action, earned them the vote later on; the mass mobilisation of women in the First World War turned into female suffrage.
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"Strict orders were issued to protect the civilians," government spokesman Hadithi said, adding that these instructions were also given to the Hashid Shaabi, or Popular Mobilisation Forces, the coalition of mostly Shiite militias backed by Iran which are involved in the fighting.
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Amiri's Badr Organisation was the largest group making up the Popular Mobilisation Forces, a coalition of paramilitary mainly backed by Iran with a considerable popular base among the Shi'ite Muslim majority but accused by Sunni and Kurdish politicians of abuses including population displacement.
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Sistani's position is in line with that of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who wants to prevent commanders of the militias known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) from using power and clout they acquired during the war in elections due on May 12.
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"(The opposition coalition) calls upon the Congolese population from this day forth to intensify and amplify the popular mobilisation every day until December 19," said a spokesman for Tshisekedi's UDPS party, referring to the day Kabila is officially due to step down.
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But Ankara is also concerned about an offensive by Iraqi Shi'ite militias, backed by Iran and known collectively as the Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces), to recapture the Iraqi town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, from the Sunni militant group Islamic State.
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"He is the chief organiser of forced mobilisation of students and government employees for cotton harvesting," Umida Niyazova, head of the Uzbek German Forum for Human Rights, a non-profit organisation that monitors forced labour in Uzbekistan's cotton industry, told Al Jazeera.
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The issuer's intension to explore the benefits of digitalisation, which has become indispensable in traditional retail and which has been underutilised in travel retail, as well as the active management of customer data will be beneficial to the mobilisation of incremental sales.
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The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), the grouping of Iraq's mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups, many of which are backed by Iran, said the United States had allowed four Israeli drones to enter the region accompanying U.S. forces and carry out missions on Iraqi territory.
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The CTS special forces spearheading the advance into Mosul are part of a 100,000-strong force of army, security forces, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and mainly Shi'ite "Popular Mobilisation" forces aiming to drive Islamic State from the largest city under their control in Iraq or Syria.
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CNAPS, the French regulatory body of the private security sector, calls this an exceptional "year of maximum mobilisation", because of the terror attacks and because France is hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament, which has brought hundreds of thousands of fans to French cities.
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In particular, Hakim's critical support allowed Abadi to resist pressure exerted by representatives of the most radical groups within Popular Mobilisation, paramilitary units trained mainly by Iran to fight IS, who wanted Iraq to follow Iran's lead in imposing a retaliatory ban on American travelers.
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Baghdad's recovery of Kirkuk, situated just outside the KRG's official boundaries on disputed land claimed by Kurds, ethnic Turkmen and Arabs, put the city's Kurds in fear of attack by Shi'ite Muslim paramilitaries, known as Popular Mobilisation, assisting government forces' operations in the region.
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"At 22:00 last night a U.S. plane hit a fixed headquarters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces' 45th and 46th brigades defending the border strip with Syria, using two guided missiles which led to the martyrdom of 22 fighters," it said in a statement.
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Obeidi said Iraq needed the help of its allies in securing cities and borders, but that the participation of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite militias, would be determined by "military plans and a decision by the commander-in-chief".
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"In the interest of the public good and as per the powers granted to us by the constitution ... the following is decreed: all Popular Mobilisation Forces are to operate as an indivisible part of the armed forces and be subject to the same regulations," the decree said.
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Distress caused by the wartime doubling of prices, the bare-knuckle crushing of dissent, the requisitioning of land and goods, the militarisation and mobilisation of large chunks of Indian society and Britain's divide-and-rule manipulation of India's sectarian rifts all contributed to a combustible atmosphere.
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Saraya al-Khorasani and Badr Organisation, one of the top Iranian-backed groups, along with Sadr's Peace Brigades and dozens of smaller groups, fight alongside the U.S.-backed Iraqi army against Islamic State, under an umbrella group known locally as Hashid Shaabi, or Popular Mobilisation Forces.
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Khaled's brother was killed fighting Islamic State for Amiri's Badr Organisation, an Iran-backed militia that is one of the many state-sponsored groups collectively known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) that emerged as a response to a Sistani fatwa calling on Iraqis to fight Islamic State.
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The statement from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), the umbrella grouping of Iraq's mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups, many of which are backed by Iran, said the United States had allowed four Israeli drones to enter the region accompanying U.S. forces and carry out missions on Iraqi territory.
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"After several Iraqi border guard positions came under several attacks by missiles, and backup from security forces was late, the 13th brigade of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) was deployed and targeted the origins of the launch," PMF commander for west Anbar, Qassem Mesleh, said in a statement.
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The two countries share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-893 colonisation of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilisation of labour at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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South Korea and Japan have a bitter history that includes the 1910-45 Japanese colonisation of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilisation of labour at Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women" - Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean - forced to work in military brothels.
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In a statement that indicated more violence was to come, the military commander of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella group of paramilitary groups whose most powerful factions are close to Iran, suggested the overnight unrest in Najaf was a threat to Shi'ite clergy based in the city.
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From combative missives in state media and patriotic fervour on social media, to a mobilisation of ambassadors around the globe to get its message out, China has turned up the rhetorical heat since U.S. moves this month to increase tariffs on Chinese imports and blacklist tech giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd .
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South Korea and Japan share a bitter history that includes the latter's 1910-45 colonisation of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilisation of labour at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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From combative missives in state media and patriotic fervour on social media, to a mobilisation of ambassadors around the globe to get its message out, China has turned up the rhetorical heat since U.S. moves this month to increase tariffs on Chinese imports and blacklist tech giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
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SEOUL, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The animosity between Japan and South Korea is entwined with the history of Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula, the mobilisation of forced labour at companies and women in wartime brothels, and a row over the ownership of islets in the sea between the two nations.
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From combative missives in state media and patriotic fervour on social media, to a mobilisation of ambassadors around the world to get its message out, China has intensified its criticism of Washington since the U.S. this month moved to increase tariffs on Chinese imports and blacklisted tech giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
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She adds that the rise in the number of complaints and queries to DPAs across the EU since May 25 demonstrates "a new level of mobilisation to action on the part of individuals to tackle what they see as misuse or failure to adequately explain what is being done with their data".
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"Today's award confirms that, from December 2022, passengers will benefit from 263 extra train services every week," the Department for Transport said here In the first phase, First Trenitalia will operate existing InterCity West Coast services while providing design, development and mobilisation services as "shadow operator" to the High Speed 2 ('HS2') programme.
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Scrapyard owners, steel plant managers and legislators from around the city of Mosul, the de facto IS capital from 2014 to 2017, described to Reuters how the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have made millions of dollars from the sale of anything from wrecked cars and damaged weapons to water tanks and window frames.
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Face à la propagation du coronavirus en Italie, Eric Ciotti, le député des Alpes-Maritimes, a annoncé avoir a écrit au Premier ministre Edouard Philippe pour lui demander la mise en place d'un plan d'urgence pour le département des Alpes-Maritimes, la mobilisation des centres hospitaliers et le contrôle renforcé de la frontière.
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The Financial Times reports... China's cyber regulator will require detailed logs of user activity and personal information from all technology companies and online service providers with "public opinion or social mobilisation capacity" before the month's end, the latest sign of how far Beijing is willing to go to tighten its control over the domestic internet.
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Mais si, par ailleurs, il offrait à la société civile une nouvelle et réelle écoute — encourageant des citoyens acteurs à s'exprimer en leur montrant que la mobilisation et une contestation constructive sont payantes — il pourrait maintenir un équilibre avec une Assemblée plutôt à droite, tout en continuant d'incarner le dépassement du clivage gauche-droite.
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Some worry that they will take advantage of the wealth accumulated from drug trafficking, illegal mining, kidnapping and extortion to secure political control of the areas where they have been based and from there possibly mount a popular mobilisation—farmers' blockades/strikes(paros), industrial action, demonstrations—modelled on president Evo Morales's successful route to power in Bolivia.
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The urgency to push out IS in 2014 led to the establishment of the "Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU)," a group of militia forces that were seen as a "short-term" fix to support the military and now claims to be an integral part of Iraq's security apparatus, refusing to be disbanded or brought into the Iraqi army.
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" He praised Iraqi forces, including the Popular Mobilisation Forces, for prioritizing the protection of civilians after learning from mistakes in previous battles to wrest control of cities from IS. "I however express my concern over disturbing reports of looting and destruction of civilian property, and looting of humanitarian aid by armed groups operating in support of the Iraqi Security Forces, in particular by some local resistance groups.
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On Monday, army units were "steadily advancing" to Falluja's southern outskirts under air cover from a U.S.-led coalition helping to fight against the militants, according to a military statement read out on state TV. A Shi'ite militia coalition known as Popular Mobilisation, or Hashid Shaabi, was seeking to consolidate the siege by dislodging militants from Saqlawiya, a village just to the north of Falluja.
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"The airport of Tal Afar has been liberated," Yusif al-Kallabi, a spokesman for Popular Mobilisation, a coalition of mainly Iranian-backed militias, told Iraqi state TV. The capture of the base, if confirmed, could be a significant development in the campaign to recapture Mosul, Islamic State's de facto capital since its forces swept through Iraq in 2014 and set up a self-declared caliphate in a swathe of Syria and northern Iraq.
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That these efforts might increase turnout among moderate voters is questionable, but not unthinkable: the elections of keenly pro-European presidents in France, Austria and Slovakia and the rise of federalist parties like the Greens in Germany and the Netherlands are testament to what Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard and Susi Dennison of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a think-tank, call in a new report a "counter-mobilisation of pro-European voters" in response to rising populism.
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