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Who is Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric whose resignation sparked protests?
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIraqi protesters clashed with police and security forces in Baghdad for two days this week following...
Lawmakers from Iraq's biggest bloc resign amid impasse
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPopulist Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr speaks during a news conference in Najaf, Iraq, on Nov. 18,...
Unyielding valor: The Battle of Sadr City
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCpl. Jared Jenkins and 1st.Sgt.Arthur Abiera, Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, search...
Will Iraq be the next Afghanistan?
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoViolent clashes between rival factions within Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim community left 23 people dead and hundreds more wounded this week. The mayhem...
Iraqi protesters breach parliament building in Baghdad
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA protester displays a poster depicting Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr on a bridge leading toward the...
Turmoil in Iraq
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIraq. Illustrated | Getty Images Earlier this week, at least 30 people were killed in Baghdad during clashes between protesters who support the...
Iraq’s Political Paralysis Is a Result of a System the U.S. Helped Create
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMotorists drive past a poster bearing the image of Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Iraqi...
Analysis-Iraqi cleric Sadr flexes muscle with torching of Swedish embassy
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLess than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics, the unpredictable Shi'ite cleric...
EXPLAINER: What spurred the bloody armed clashes in Baghdad?
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor 24 hours, loyalists of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr transformed the country’s government...
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...