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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...
Analysis-Iraq's mercurial Moqtada Sadr risks isolation with political retreat
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMoqtada al-Sadr, the Muslim Shi'ite cleric who dominated Iraqi politics for two decades, seems...
Explainer: What's driving the power struggle in Iraq?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi'ite...
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.
Followers of Iraq's Sadr pray at Saddam-era parade ground
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTens of thousands of followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr prayed on Friday at an iconic...
Cleric killed in restive Iranian city, protests rage on
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDUBAI (Reuters) -A cleric at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the restive, mostly Sunni Muslim Iranian...
Analysis-Iraqi cleric Sadr flexes muscle with torching of Swedish embassy
Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLess than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics, the unpredictable Shi'ite cleric...
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...