Country Report on Terrorism 2023- Chapter 4 - Iraq

Iraq:  During 2023, portions of Iraq remained potential safe havens for terrorist training, organization, and operations.  The Government of Iraq (GOI) was cognizant of this challenge and continued to engage in counterterrorism operations and cooperated with the United States, the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and international organizations on counterterrorism efforts.  Although the GOI issued Executive Order 237 in 2019 to further its control over Iran-aligned militia groups (IAMG) within the Popular Mobilization Forces, several of those groups continued to defy central government authority and instigated violent and destabilizing activities in Iraq and neighboring Syria, including conducting attacks against U.S. interests.  The government was not known to support or facilitate the proliferation or trafficking of WMD in or through its territory.