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Iraqi parliament approves unpopular election law amendments
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIraq's parliament approved on Monday amendments to the elections law, a move that has angered...
Iraqi parliament passes controversial vote law amendments
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIraqi lawmakers passed early Monday controversial amendments to the country's election law that...
Iraq’s Political Paralysis Is a Result of a System the U.S. Helped Create
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMotorists drive past a poster bearing the image of Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Iraqi...
A feud between a patriarch and a militia leader adds to the woes of Iraqi Christians
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIraqi Christians have struggled since the Nineveh plains, their historic homeland of rolling hills...
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 holds first provincial elections in a decade
Reuters via AOL· 4 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraqis were voting on Monday in the first provincial council elections in a decade, with the ruling Shi'ite Muslim alliance likely to...
Populist Iraq cleric al-Sadr suspends movement, citing corruption
Military Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBAGHDAD (AP) — Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr announced on...
Will Iraq be the next Afghanistan?
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoViolent clashes between rival factions within Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim community left 23 people dead and hundreds more wounded this week. The mayhem...
Three Iraqi government ministers resign over house speaker's ouster
Reuters via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Three government ministers backed by ousted Iraqi parliament speaker Mohammed...
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Fast Facts
CNN via AOL· 9 months agoHere’s a look at the life of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric. Personal Birth date: August 4, 1930 Birth place:...
