Video: Kataib Hezbollah Transporting M1 Abrams American Tanks the front to fight the Islamic State.

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According to Phillip Smyth, an independent expert on LAFA's operations, the number of Iraqi Shiite militants in Syria fluctuates between 800 and 2,000. These fighters are drawn almost exclusively from three Iraqi groups.

• The main contributor is Asaib Ahl al-Haqq (AAH), a 2,000-3,000-strong militant group that splintered from Muqtada al-Sadr's movement in 2006 with support from the IRGC Qods Force and Lebanese Hezbollah. 
• The second is Kataib Hezbollah (KH), an elite 400-man cadre of experienced Iraqi Shiite fighters reporting directly to the IRGC Qods Force leadership. 
• The third is Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), a 200-man force led by Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani (a.k.a. Hamid al-Sheibani), an Iraqi Shiite who has worked under the Qods Force since the late 1980s. Reports also indicate the presence of Iraqi Shiites from the Badr Organization and Muqtada al-Sadr's Liwa al-Youm al-Mawud (Promised Day Brigades). Regardless of its exact composition, LAFA appears to have soaked up a large proportion of the hardened, Iranian-supported militant cadres that harassed the U.S. military in Iraq.

Update: Via (UskowiOnIran).

American-supplied, formerly Iraqi Army M1A1M main battle tank on M1070 Truck Tractor and M1000 Heavy Equipment Transporter Semi-trailer; now in use with Iran-backed Kata'ib Hizbullah militia in Iraq.

Note: This former Iraqi Army M1A1M main battle tank may be the same unit adorned with KH flag seen depicted onsocial media last October 2014.

@EjmAlrai @MFS001 how iraqi hizbullah can have such big force unless Iraqi government provide them?
— Mehmed Mirhan (@MehmedMirhan) January 28, 2015

Very true. None the less, both are together in Iraq. @benrgilbert @MFS001
— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) January 28, 2015

Hezbollah Iraq, like all Shia militia, are working with the Iraqi sec forces and part of it since June 2014. @MehmedMirhan @MFS001
— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) January 28, 2015

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Hmmm........