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Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPowerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political...
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...
Factbox-Who is the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
Reuters via AOL· 11 months agoProtesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday and set it on fire in protest against...
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...
Iran's allies in Iraq are firing at Israel. What if they draw blood?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIran-backed Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in...
Iraqi Shi'ite Sadrist lawmakers resign from parliament
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Lawmakers from the Sadrist bloc in Iraq's parliament resigned on Sunday after...
Iraqi cleric al-Sadr demands closure of U.S. embassy over Israel ties
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIraq's Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the Iraqi government and lawmakers on Friday to...
Analysis-Iraqi cleric Sadr flexes muscle with torching of Swedish embassy
Reuters via AOL· 11 months agoLess than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics, the unpredictable Shi'ite cleric...
Clashes in Iraq's Basra kill four as crisis flares in oil-rich south
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Clashes among rival Shi'ite Muslim militants in the Iraqi city of Basra have...
Sadr's followers set up for long sit-in at Iraq parliament
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSupporters of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr erected tents and prepared for an open-ended...