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image by Zoltan Horvath, 20 June 2014
The "Promised Day Brigades (PDB) (Arabic: لواء اليوم الموعود - Liwa al-Youm
al-Mawud), originally called the Muqawimun is an Shi'a Islamist and insurgent
group operating in Iraq and recently also
Syria. In 2010 it was one of the largest and most powerful of what the US
military call
"Special Groups" in Iraq. The group was created as successor to Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, which was
Iraq's largest Shi'a militia until its disbanding in 2008".
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi_Army and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promised_Day_Brigades
Esteban Rivera, 17 June 2014
The flag is seen
here.
Esteban Rivera, 17 June 2014
The Promised Day Brigades were active from 2008 until the announced
dissolution by Moqtada al-Sadr on November 19, 2021.
Sources:
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki
and
https://baghdadtoday.news/news
![[Iraqi Navy]](../images/i/iq}pdb).jpg)
![[Iraqi Navy]](../images/i/iq}pdb2.jpg)
image located by
Esteban Rivera, 8 February 2025
The Promised Day Brigades
uses another blue background flag.
The flag is a blue horizontal background with the logo, which is the earth
from an Arabic point of view, with an inscription in white across the middle
"لواء اليوم الموعود" (Promised Day Brigades), with another
inscription on top in black "المقاومة الاسلامية" (English: Islamic
resistance) with two crossed images behind, one being a Dragunov rifle and
the other one being the green banner described above.
Images from https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
at https://www.facebook.com/m2020an
For additional information
go to al-Maoaod official website: https://www.almaoaod.net
Esteban Rivera, 8 February 2025
