Badr Organization

{{distinguish|Badr Brigade in the Jordanian Army}}

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{{Infobox political party

| logo = Badr Organisation Political Logo.jpg

| logo_size =

| country = Iraq

| name = Badr Organization

| native_name = منظمة بدر

| native_name_lang = ar

| colorcode = black

| leader = Hadi al-Amiri

| foundation = {{start date|1982}} as the military wing of the ISCI
2003–present as a political movement

| ideology = Shia Islamism{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-idUSKCN0JE03H20141130|title=Iraq's divisions will delay counter-offensive on Islamic State|publisher=Reuters|author=Dominic Evans|date=30 November 2014|access-date=1 December 2014}}
Khomeinism{{Cite journal |last=Steinberg |first=Guido |date=July 2017 |title=The Badr Organization |url=https://www.swp-berlin.org/publications/products/comments/2017C26_sbg.pdf |journal=German Institute for International and Security Affairs}}
Wilayat al-Faqih{{Cite web |title=UNHCR Web Archive |url=https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20230527180140/https://www.refworld.org/docid/5538b4004.html |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=webarchive.archive.unhcr.org}}
Anti-Sunnism{{Cite web |last=Dagres |first=Holly |date=2018-08-16 |title=Badr Brigade: Among Most Consequential Outcomes of the Iran-Iraq War |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/badr-brigade-among-most-consequential-outcomes-of-the-iran-iraq-war-2/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}}

| position = Right-wing{{Cite web |title=The Popular Mobilization Forces and Iraq's Future |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2017/04/the-popular-mobilization-forces-and-iraqs-future?lang=en¢er=middle-east |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |language=en}}

| religion = Shia Islam

| national = National Iraqi Alliance{{cite news|url=http://www.aawsat.net/2014/09/article55336600|title=National Alliance deadlocked over candidates for Interior Ministry|work=Asharq Al-Awsat|date=16 September 2014|access-date=20 October 2014|archive-date=17 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917104805/http://www.aawsat.net/2014/09/article55336600|url-status=dead}} (2005–2014)
State of Law Coalition (2014–18){{Cite web |url=http://www.alghadeer.tv/news/detail/14259/ |title=اسماء الفائزين من منطمة بدر في البرلمان المقبل |access-date=2018-12-07 |archive-date=2016-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310194611/http://www.alghadeer.tv/news/detail/14259/ |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=https://alghadeer.tv/news/detail/14274/ |title=90% من مرشحي منظمة بدر يفوزون بالانتخابات محققين 22 مقعدا |access-date=2018-12-07 |archive-date=2014-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523003118/http://www.alghadeer.tv/news/detail/14274/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.alghadpress.com/news/%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9/131007/%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86 |title=قيادي في بدر: نعمل على تشكيل تحالف جديد بعد انفصالنا عن دولة القانون |access-date=2022-06-24 |archive-date=2019-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190612032448/https://www.alghadpress.com/news/%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9/131007/%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86 |url-status=dead }}
Fatah Alliance (2018–present)

| flag = Badr Organization Flag.png

| international = Axis of Resistance

| seats1_title = Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|17|329|hex=black}}

}}

{{Infobox War Faction

| name = Badr Organization

| war = Iraq War, Iraqi Civil War

| image = Badr Organization Flag.png

| caption = Flag of the Badr Organisation Military Wing

| active = 1982–2003 (officially)
2014–present

| leaders = Hadi Al-Amiri

| clans = Structure

| headquarters = Najaf, Iraq

| area = Baghdad and Southern Iraq

| allegiance = {{flag|Iran}} (IRGC) (alleged)

| size = 15,000 (2008){{cite book |last1=Dralonge |first1=Richard |title=Economics and Geopolitics of the Middle East |date=2008 |publisher=Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated |isbn=9781604560763 |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V-SBcCeLnaUC}}
10,000–15,000 (2014){{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/06/breaking-badr/|title=Breaking Badr|date=6 November 2015|work=Foreign Policy}}

| partof = {{flagicon|Iran}} Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (originally){{Cite news |last=Steinberg |first=Guido |date=July 2017 |title=The Badr Organization |url=https://www.swp-berlin.org/publications/products/comments/2017C26_sbg.pdf |work=German Institute for International and Security Affairs}}
Popular Mobilization Forces (2014–present)

| predecessor = Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

| successor =

| allies = State allies:

• {{IRN}}
• {{IRQ}}
• {{flag|Ba'athist Syria}} (until 2024)

{{Collapsible list

|bullets = yes

|title = Non-state allies:

|{{flagicon image|Islamic Dawa Party Flag.svg}} Islamic Dawa Party (Nouri al-Maliki){{Cite web|url=https://aawsat.com/home/article/274751/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7-%C2%AB%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1%C2%BB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%AA%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%9F|title=ميليشيا «بدر» الطائفية.. كيف تبني إيران دولة جديدة في العراق المعاصر؟|website=الشرق الأوسط}}

|{{flagicon image|Single Color Flag - FFFF00.svg}} Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada{{cite web|url=https://jihadology.net/2013/09/09/hizballah-cavalcade-kataib-sayyid-al-shuhada-emerges-updates-on-the-new-iraqi-shia-militia-supplying-fighters-to-syria/|title=Hizballah Cavalcade: Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada Emerges: Updates on the New Iraqi Shia Militia Supplying Fighters to Syria|date=9 September 2013}}

|{{flag|Hezbollah}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/movementsandparties/2016/2/10/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%88%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AF |title=بدر.. مليشيا عراقية حاربت صدام وقاتلت مع الأسد |access-date=2018-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121045417/http://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/movementsandparties/2016/2/10/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%88%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AF |archive-date=2018-01-21 |url-status=dead }}

|{{flagicon image|Single Color Flag - 007500.svg}} Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PF138Appendices/PF138_Appendix_2.pdf |title=Data |website=www.washingtoninstitute.org |access-date=2016-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325074712/https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PF138Appendices/PF138_Appendix_2.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-25 |url-status=dead }}

|{{flagicon image|Shabak Flag.jpg}} Quwwat Sahl Ninawa{{cite web|url=http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/10/hashd-brigade-numbers-index/|title=Hashd Brigade Numbers Index|website=www.rubincenter.org|access-date=2018-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717153927/http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/10/hashd-brigade-numbers-index/|archive-date=2018-07-17|url-status=dead}}

|{{flagdeco|IRQ}} Liwa Assad Allah al-Ghalib fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-iran-is-building-its-syrian-hezbollah|title=How Iran Is Building Its Syrian Hezbollah|website=www.washingtoninstitute.org}}

|{{Flagicon image|Kata'ib_Hezbollah_sans_logo.JPG}} Kata'ib Hezbollah{{Cite web|url=https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/kataib-hezbollah|title=MMP: Kata'ib Hezbollah|website=cisac.fsi.stanford.edu}}

}}

| opponents = State opponents:

• {{flag|Israel}}{{cite web | url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-april-13-2024 | title=Institute for the Study of War }}
• {{flag|Ba'athist Iraq}} (1982–2003)

{{Collapsible list

|bullets = yes

|title = Non-state opponents:

|{{flagdeco|Ba'athist Iraq}} Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order{{cite web |url=https://www.alhadath.net/alhadath/iraq/2014/06/26/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82.html |title=جيش "الطريقة النقشبندية".. لاعب جديد قديم في العراق |website=www.alhadath.net |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813063111/https://www.alhadath.net/alhadath/iraq/2014/06/26/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82.html |archive-date=13 August 2020 |url-status=dead}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of the People's Mujahedin of Iran.svg}} People's Mujahedin of Iran{{cite web |url=https://www.alghadpress.com/news/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9/46257/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A |title=الغد برس |website=www.alghadpress.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810221814/https://www.alghadpress.com/news/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9/46257/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A |archive-date=10 August 2020 |url-status=dead}}

|{{flag|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Islamic_Army_In_Iraq.svg}} Islamic Army in Iraq{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/54/54F87F15D446471E9A12A4A0324BCB87_iraqinsurgency1206.pdf |title=State of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq: 2006 |publisher=CIA |date=2006-12-29 |access-date=2025-03-14}}

|{{flagdeco|Syria|1932}} Free Syrian Army{{cite web|url=http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/syriasource/iraqi-shia-fighters-in-syria|title=Iraqi Shia Fighters in Syria|first=Ali|last=Alfoneh|date=4 May 2017}}

|{{flagdeco|Iraqi Kurdistan}} Peshmerga{{cite web|url=https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/10/kurdish-forces-and-iraqi-forces-militias-clash-in-northern-iraq.php|title=Kurdish and Iraqi forces, militias clash in northern Iraq |work=Long War Journal|date=26 October 2017}}

}}

| battles = {{tree list}}

• Iran–Iraq War
• 1991 uprisings in Iraq
• 1991 uprising in Basra
• 1991 uprising in Karbala
• Kurdish Civil War
• Iraq War
• Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
• 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency
• Battle of Amarah
• Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
• Battle of Basra
• War in Iraq (2013–2017)
• Salahuddin campaign
• Siege of Amirli
• Operation Ashura
• Dhuluiya offensive
• Battle of Baiji (2014–15)
• Second Battle of Tikrit
• Battle of Mosul (2016)
• 2015–2018 Iraqi protests
• Syrian Civil War
• Aleppo offensive (October–December 2015){{cite web|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/hezbollah-and-iraqi-reinforcements-arrive-in-southern-aleppo-to-begin-the-march-to-idlib/|title=Hezbollah and Iraqi reinforcements arrive in southern Aleppo to begin the march to Idlib|date=25 December 2015|work=Al-Masdar News|access-date=29 July 2018|archive-date=17 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617045507/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/hezbollah-and-iraqi-reinforcements-arrive-in-southern-aleppo-to-begin-the-march-to-idlib/|url-status=dead}}
• Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016){{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/02/the-irgcs-involvement-in-the-battle-for-aleppo.php|title=The IRGC's involvement in the battle for Aleppo |website=FDD's Long War Journal|date=13 February 2016 }}
• Palmyra offensive (March 2016){{cite web|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-syrian-army-hezbollah-liberate-al-amariyah-northern-palmyra/|title=Breaking: Syrian Army, Hezbollah liberate Al-Amariyah in northern Palmyra|date=26 March 2016|access-date=29 July 2018|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101094751/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-syrian-army-hezbollah-liberate-al-amariyah-northern-palmyra/|url-status=dead}}
• 2016 Southern Aleppo campaign{{cite web|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/battle-southern-aleppo-way-syrian-army-attack-khan-touman/|title=Battle for southern Aleppo is under way as the Syrian Army attack Khan Touman|date=8 May 2016|access-date=29 July 2018|archive-date=3 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603010504/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/battle-southern-aleppo-way-syrian-army-attack-khan-touman/|url-status=dead}}
• Northwestern Syria offensive (2024)

{{tree list/end}}

| designated_as_terror_group_by = {{UAE}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wam.ae/ar/news/emirates-arab-international/1395272465559.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117230142/http://www.wam.ae/ar/news/emirates-arab-international/1395272465559.html|archive-date=2014-11-17|title=مجلس الوزراء يعتمد قائمة التنظيمات الإرهابية. - WAM|date=17 November 2014}}

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The Badr Organization ({{langx|ar|منظمة بدر}} Munaẓẓama Badr), previously known as the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps, is an Iraqi Shia Islamist and Khomeinist political party and paramilitary organization headed by Hadi al-Amiri. The Badr Brigade, formed in 1982 and led by Iranian officers, served as the military arm of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a Shia Islamic party based in Iran. The Badr Brigade was created by Iranian intelligence and Shia cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim with the aim of fighting the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein during the Iran–Iraq War. Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, most of the Badr Brigade fighters have entered the new Iraqi army and police force. Since 2003, the Badr Brigade and SCIRI were considered to be one party, but have recently unofficially separated"The Supreme Council Undergoes Broad Changes in the Ranks… Hakim: We Paid a High Price in Previous Elections," al-Rafidayn, Nov. 20, 2011 with the Badr Organization now being an official Iraqi political party. Badr Brigade forces, and their Iranian commanders, have come to prominence in 2014 fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq.{{cite web|url=http://www.aawsat.net/2014/09/article55336936 |title=Hadi Al-Ameri: A Militia Leader Torn between Washington and Tehran |access-date=26 March 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213204222/http://www.aawsat.net/2014/09/article55336936 |archive-date=2014-12-13}} It is a part of the Popular Mobilization Forces.