Firebrand Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Saturday showed ostensible support ... This marks the sharpest criticism of Abdul Mahdi's government yet from Sadr, who in speeches always casts himself as ...

Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Sairoon Coalition that won the parliamentary elections in Iraq, has asked the Prime Minister-designate to make independent decisions on electing members of his ...

Iraqi police and soldiers battled Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi fighters Tuesday for control of key neighborhoods in Basra, the country's second-largest city, as the radical Shiite cleric threatened a ...

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U.S. officials are calling for peace and dialogue amid reports of "disturbing" violence in Baghdad's Green Zone on Monday after Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al ... Abdul Mahdi. Iraq's Sadr forms ...

Just two days after Vice President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Baghdad last Thursday, Shiite cleric and longtime American foe Muqtada al-Sadr directed his followers to storm the Green Zone ...