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Nuri al-Maliki Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 year 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...
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...
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...
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,...
Why Iraq Is Calling for the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia’ Al Sudani at a press conference in Baghdad on December 28, 2023....
Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance wins more than 100 local council seats
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Parties that make up Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance together took at least 101...
Iraq's ruling Shi'ite alliance leads in provincial elections -initial results
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Parties that make up Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance together took the single...
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...
Exclusive-Lebanon's Bank Audi, others, disavow banking group's objection to IMF plan
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's Bank Audi and Al-Mawarid Bank said on Wednesday they disagreed with a...
Iranian Guards chiefs ‘tried to radicalise UK students with antisemitic talks claiming Holocaust was...
The Independent UK via AOL· 10 months agoSenior commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have tried to radicalise...