BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi has urged armed factions to join state institutions.
Al-Zaidi, who only recently took office, has voiced support for the state’s monopoly on weapons as Washington calls for groups it designates as terrorist organizations to hand over their weapons to the government.
It comes after influential Muqtada Al-Sadr said his own group would do so.
Al-Sadr has long criticized armed factions and repeatedly urged them to disarm.
Al-Zaidi called in a statement, “on all armed factions to follow the same responsible national path and operate under the umbrella of the state and its official institutions.”
