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Mukhtar Army
The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2015. Today the opening carries none. 8 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Mukhtar Army is a Shi'a Iraqi militia group formed in February 2013 by Wathiq al-Battat, a former senior official in the Hezbollah Brigades . Al-Battat has pledged his loyalty to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei .1 Al-Battat was arrested briefly on 2 January 2014, and was apparently killed 'inadvertently' at point-blank range on 20 December 2014 at a fake police checkpoint in eastern Iraq.2
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“militant” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 8. Read the current article and compare.
| 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
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| militant | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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