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Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance wins more than 100 local council seats
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Parties that make up Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance together took at least 101...
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...
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...
Iraqi parliament to vote Thursday on new president amid divisions
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIraq's parliament will convene this week for a session meant to elect a new president, the speaker's...
Saudi-Iranian ties: A history of ups and downs
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Tuesday, Saudi media reported, months after the two regional rivals...
How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week,...
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...
U.S.-led Iraq war ushered in years of chaos and conflict
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) - The 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was meant to topple a dictator who had...
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...
Iraqi cleric Sadr calls off protests after worst Baghdad violence in years
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to end their protests in...