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Iraq's competing Shi'ite armed factions and partiesA visit by the commander of Iran's Quds Force to Baghdad led to a pause in attacks on U.S. troops by Iran-aligned groups in Iraq. The rulin...
How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into warGrand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani said nothing in public about the unrest that erupted on Iraq's streets. But government officials and Shi'ite...
Clashes kill 10 as Iraq's Moqtada al-Sadr quits politics, loyalists storm complexIn July, Al-Sadr's supporters broke into the parliament to deter his rivals in the Coordination Framework, an alliance of mostly Iran-align...
In Iraq, an old United States foe grows his political powerOver the past two years, Sadr's political organisation, the Sadrist Movement, has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state...- British journalist rescued in Basra after two months in captivityIraqi troops freed a kidnapped British journalist Monday after finding him hooded and bound in a house during a raid in a Shiite militia st...
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