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Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoPowerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political...
Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric al-sadr announces hunger strike - state media
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(Reuters) - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is said to have announced a hunger...
Deadly clashes rage in Baghdad in Shi'ite power struggle
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Heavy clashes erupted in Baghdad, killing almost 20 people on Monday, after...
Bomb blast in Kabul kills eight, injures more than 20
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoKABUL (Reuters) -A bomb blast in a busy shopping street in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday...
Iraqi judiciary to resume work amid political crisis fuelled by cleric Sadr
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq's judiciary will resume its activities on Wednesday after powerful Shi'ite...
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...
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Sadr storm Baghdad's Green Zone again
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed...
Factbox-Who is the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoProtesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday and set it on fire in protest against...
Landslide hits Shi'ite shrine in Iraq, killing at least four
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAt least four people were killed after a landslide demolished a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the central...
Saudi-Iranian ties: A history of ups and downs
Reuters via Yahoo News· 12 months agoDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Tuesday, Saudi media reported, months after the two regional rivals...