Exchanging fatigues for an Iraqi military uniform while continuing to answer to militia leadership is not disarmament. It is simply changing clothes.

Iraq is at a turning point as militias begin procedures to disengage from the PMF and potentially hand weapons to the government amid US pressure.

Exchanging fatigues for an Iraqi military uniform while continuing to answer to militia leadership is not disarmament. It is simply changing clothes.

Pressure from Washington has borne fruit, with three groups already beginning process of placing weapons under state control