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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...
Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance wins more than 100 local council seats
Reuters via Yahoo News· 5 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...
Saudi-Iranian ties: A history of ups and downs
Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months agoDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Tuesday, Saudi media reported, months after the two regional rivals...
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...
Analysis-Iraqi cleric Sadr flexes muscle with torching of Swedish embassy
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLess than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics, the unpredictable Shi'ite cleric...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
