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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...
Iraqi cleric shows power as thousands attend mass prayer
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTens of thousands of Iraqis attended a mass prayer in a Baghdad suburb on Friday called for by an...
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...
Iraq's Sadr: from outlaw to top politician
Reuters via Yahoo News· 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...
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...
Violent clashes in Iraq after influential cleric’s resignation from politics
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoViolent clashes broke out in Baghdad, Iraq, after an influential Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr,...
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...
Mass protest in Baghdad follows Koran burning in Sweden
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest...
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...
Lebanon parliament speaker urges Iraq's Sadr to retract resignation
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who also heads a major Shi'ite Muslim...
