Iraqi supporters of the influential Shia cleric-turned-political leader Muqtada al-Sadr have left Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone following a day of extreme violence in which thirty ...

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Gaddafi's son Hannibal is currently detained in Lebanon, with authorities insisting he is witholding information about Musa al-Sadr's death. In 2021, Muqtada al-Sadr announced that a committee had ...

Muqtada al-Sadr refuses to negotiate over forming the next government and is preventing the Iraqi Parliament from electing a prime minister and president. Meanwhile, his ...

Iran knows that populist leaders such as Muqtada al-Sadr have said Iraq should not be sending forces to Syria. “After Gaza, they came to Lebanon and then to Syria, and in my opinion, this will ...

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-Sadr announced his withdrawal from ...