Peace Companies

The Peace Companies (Arabic: سرايا السلام‎‎, translit. Sarāyā al-Salām), frequently mistranslated Peace Brigades in US media, are an Iraqi armed group linked to Iraq's Shia community and are a revival of the Mahdi Army (JAM; جيش المهدي Jaish al-Mahdī), created by the Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. The group was re-mobilized in 2014 in order to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and is still active as of 2016. It participated in the recapture of Jurf Al Nasr and the Second Battle of Tikrit.

Peace Companies

The Peace Companies (Arabic: سرايا السلام‎‎, translit. Sarāyā al-Salām), frequently mistranslated Peace Brigades in US media, are an Iraqi armed group linked to Iraq's Shia community and are a revival of the Mahdi Army (JAM; جيش المهدي Jaish al-Mahdī), created by the Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. The group was re-mobilized in 2014 in order to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and is still active as of 2016. It participated in the recapture of Jurf Al Nasr and the Second Battle of Tikrit.