Moqtada al-Sadr

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning and set it on fire, a source familiar with the matter and a Reuters witness said, in a protest against the expected burning of…

Issued on: 13/10/2022 - 18:28 Despite a rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone, Iraqi lawmakers Thursday elected a new president in hopes of ending a year of political…

Issued on: 13/10/2022 - 10:34 Lawmakers in crisis-hit Iraq are set to meet Thursday for their fourth attempt this year to elect a new state president and break political…

Iraq’s powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to end their protests in central Baghdad on Tuesday and apologised to Iraqis after 22 people were killed in clashes between rival Shi’ite Muslim groups. ”This is not a revolution…

BAGHDAD: Fighting between rival Iraqi forces raged for a second day Tuesday with rocket fire echoing from Baghdad's Green Zone where 23 supporters of powerful Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr have been shot dead, medics said. Tensions have soared…

Ten months after the October 2021 parliamentary elections, Iraq is still mired in a political impasse that turned deadly Monday after Moqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation from politics. Supporters of the powerful…

Issued on: 30/08/2022 - 10:01 Fighting between rival Iraqi forces raged for a second day Tuesday as the death toll from violence sparked by Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s…

Issued on: 29/08/2022 - 14:02 Iraq's powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Monday he was quitting politics and closing his institutions in response to an intractable…

Issued on: 23/08/2022 - 13:20Modified: 23/08/2022 - 13:24 Several hundred supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched a sit-in outside Iraq's top judicial body on…

Issued on: 12/08/2022 - 20:33 Opponents of populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched their own Baghdad sit-in Friday two weeks after Sadr supporters stormed parliament and…