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Topic - Badr Organization

) previously known as the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps (not to be confused with the Badr Brigade in the Jordanian Army) is an Iraqi political party headed by Hadi al-Amiri. Previously it was the armed wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq but since the 2003 invasion of Iraq most of its fighters have entered the new Iraqi army and police force and it officially became a completely political organisation. - Source: Wikipedia

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