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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...
Berri wins tight speaker vote in divided Lebanon parliament
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's new legislature narrowly elected veteran Shi'ite Muslim politician Nabih...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
