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Groups CENTCOM

Alternate Names

  • Mahdi Army
  • Jaish al-Mahdi
  • Jaysh al-Mahdi
  • Army of the Mahdi
  • Imam Al-Mahdi Army
  • Sunni Mahdi

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"The Mahdi Army was formed by Moqtada al-Sadr and Imad Mugniyah in April 2003. Initially, around three hundred recruits from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were sent to Lebanon where they were trained by Hezbollah." Mapping Militant Organizations-Stanford

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