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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...
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...
Deadlock gives Iraq record run without government, hampering reforms
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq marked its longest post-election deadlock on Wednesday as infighting among...
NEWSMAKER-Iraq's Sadr: from outlaw to top politician
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 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 kingmaker and Iraq's most powerful figure.
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...
Analysis - Sadr raises the stakes in struggle for Iraq
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMoqtada al-Sadr has raised the stakes in the struggle for Iraq with a major political escalation...
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...
Factbox-Who has run Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was designed to pave the way for a thriving democracy but the mostly...
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...