BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Less than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics, the unpredictable Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reminded his rivals of the influence he still wields after his ...

Muqtada al-Sadr backs Iraq's anti-corruption campaign, urging peaceful demonstrations as nationwide investigations expand ...

Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaking during weekly Friday prayers at a mosque in the town of Kufa, Iraq, in November, 2006.S Wissam Al-Okaili / AFP / Getty Has the government of Iraqi Prime ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Khalil Ibrahim’s four sons are among thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric staging a sit-in outside Iraq’s parliament after storming the building last week in a ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Iraqi Shi'ite firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Mahdi Army ...

In a dramatic parliamentary session on January 9, the new Iraqi parliament reelected Mohamed al-Halbousi for a second term as speaker. While the vote further widened intra-Shia divisions, it also ...

All truths, however long they may take, will find themselves revealed with the passage of time. Unfortunately, in the case of Imam Musa Sadr, that moment has not yet come. August 31 marked the ...

In this report from Al Jazeera English, Nation contributor Mohamad Bazzi explains the impact of Muqtada al-Sadr's ambitions to become an ayatollah. The bad boy of Iraqi politics is going back to ...

He died at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris following a long illness, his wife and children said on Bani-Sadr's ...

BAGHDAD, July 15 (Reuters) - The Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Thursday he will not take part in elections in October and withdrew his support from the government, distancing himself ...