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Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback
Reuters via Yahoo News· 4 days 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...