Falah al-Fayadh, Iraqi national security adviser and chief of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces), gives a press conference at the organisation's command headquarters in the southern city of Basra on March 7, 2018, after attending a funeral for one of the members who was killed during fighting with remaining Islamic State (IS) group fighters in Hawija. / AFP / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI