Since 1979, Iran has supported a network of militia groups right across the region, some even developing into political parties.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps provide these groups with weapons and training to push its own agenda, although it has long denied directing the group's attacks, saying that they act on their own initiative.
But just who are Iran's proxies? And how do these alliances work?
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