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Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance wins more than 100 local council seats
Reuters via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Parties that make up Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance together took at least 101...
Nuri al-Maliki Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoHere’s a look at the life of Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Personal Birth date: July 1, 1950 Birth place: Hindiya, Iraq (some sources say...
Why Iraq Is Calling for the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia’ Al Sudani at a press conference in Baghdad on December 28, 2023....
Factbox-Iraq’s competing Shi’ite groups
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi’ite Muslim political and paramilitary groups are escalating a tense political standoff which many Iraqis worry could lead to new...
Talks to end US-led coalition in Iraq may take until after US election, Iraqi official says
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTalks between the United States and Iraq on ending the U.S.-led military coalition in the country...
On This Day, Dec. 9: Senate report on CIA calls torture tactics 'deeply flawed'
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn Dec. 9, 2014, a Senate Intelligence Committee report said the CIA's interrogation of terror...
Iraq's ruling Shi'ite alliance leads in provincial elections -initial results
Reuters via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Parties that make up Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance together took the single...
Iraqi cleric calls for dissolution of parliament, early vote
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoInfluential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told followers Wednesday to continue their sit-in inside...
Iraq's Sadr: from outlaw to top politician
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPopulist Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, once a mercurial outlaw wanted dead or alive during the U.S. occupation, rose to become a political...
Iraqi protesters storm parliament in Baghdad, set up sit-in
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric stormed into Iraq's parliament on Saturday,...
