The deadline set by Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi about a month ago to join the grassroots factions joined the government forces, while the head of the crowd, Faleh al-Fayadh, said he informed Abdul Mahdi of the measures taken by the authority in response to the orders.
In early July, Abdul Mahdi ordered the closure of all the headquarters of popular factions in cities and outside, and the best factions to join the Iraqi security forces or stay outside, provided that the disarmament, saying that the factions that do not follow instructions are out of the law.
Al-Fayyad, also the Iraqi national security adviser, said he had sent a letter to the prime minister detailing the measures taken by the crowd, in response to the order to organize the work of the crowd.
He said in his letter that the offices of the Popular Struggle Authority in all governorates have been canceled and that its elements and assets have been transferred to the appropriate authority in the Authority.
Fayyad added that "all the names were removed from the context of the Diwani order, including the name of the tribal crowd, and the unification of the contexts to achieve harmony between our various configurations, and it will be within two months in full."
"Orders have been issued to close any presence in the cities under any economic name that could be attributed to the Popular Lobby, and this has been accomplished," he said.
The popular mobilization forces included thousands of Shiite elements under the ranks of various factions such as the Badr Brigade, Asaib al-Haq and Saraya al-Salam, and later expanded under pressure from the United States to join Sunni insurgents.
Shiite factions began their military activity after a fatwa issued by the supreme Shiite religious authority in Iraq Ali al-Sistani on June 13, 2014, three days after the Islamic state's control over large areas of the provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk, Salahuddin, Diyala and Anbar.
Many of the charges have been directed at the popular crowd for abuses against the people, and observers believe that the prime minister will face a major challenge in adapting factions calling themselves the resistance factions.