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4/14/2023 1:43:45 PM
Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, who wields great influence over national politics, said Friday he was "freezing" for a year his powerful movement over "sinful" practices among supporters.
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10/15/2022 2:12:33 PM
Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr's movement on Saturday announced its refusal to join a new government being formed by prime minister-designate Mohammad Shia al-Sudani.
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10/14/2022 7:00:02 PM
Iraqi lawmakers have elected a new president who swiftly named a prime minister in the hope of ending a year of political gridlock and deadly violence.
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10/11/2022 6:49:36 PM
Iraq's parliament will meet Thursday to "elect the president", speaker Mohammed al-Halbussi's office said, in a surprise move seen at trying to end months of political impasse.
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10/8/2022 12:38:38 PM
A year since Iraq's last elections, it remains without not only a new government but a budget too, obstructing much-needed reforms and infrastructure projects in the oil-rich but war-ravaged country.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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10/7/2022 2:18:00 PM
Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr has a lot to worry about. He has created a mass movement only to turn out he is lacking the edge.
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9/28/2022 11:19:42 PM
Three rockets were fired Wednesday at Baghdad's Green Zone, wounding seven security force personnel, as parliament was holding its first session in two months, Iraq's security forces said.
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9/28/2022 5:46:35 PM
Supporters of Iraq's influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr again stormed Baghdad's Green Zone government area Wednesday as the Iraqi parliament held session on the resignation of its speaker.
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9/26/2022 6:53:53 PM
Iraq's parliament, at the centre of a months-long political paralysis, is to convene Wednesday for the first time since deadly unrest in August and a sit-in protest by supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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Africa
9/14/2022 10:10:22 PM
Kenya's new President William Ruto said on Wednesday the East African country was breaking diplomatic ties with the contested Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Western Sahara after talks with Morocco.
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9/7/2022 4:54:04 PM
Iraq's top court has ruled that it does not have the constitutional right to dissolve the country's parliament.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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9/7/2022 11:14:00 AM
The failed attempt by Muqtada Al-Sadr to bring down the country’s entrenched ruling cliques has exposed a dangerous fault line on Iraq’s path for change, writes Al-Ahram Weekly.
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9/4/2022 9:19:03 PM
Staff at Iraq's parliament returned to work Sunday for the first time since powerful Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr's supporters stormed the legislature in late July, an assembly official said.
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9/1/2022 1:25:38 PM
Three militants were killed overnight after an ambush in the southern Iraqi city of Basra sparked clashes between rival Shia factions, a security source said Thursday, days after deadly clashes in the capital.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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8/31/2022 11:51:00 AM
Al-Ahram Weekly reports from Baghdad on the latest clashes in the Iraqi capital
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8/30/2022 8:28:35 PM
Iraqi President Barham Saleh on Tuesday encouraged early legislative elections to settle a political crisis that escalated into deadly clashes this week, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.
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8/30/2022 8:14:18 PM
Iraq's long-running power struggle between rival Shia camps devolved into bloody street violence this week, the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum.
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8/30/2022 6:01:29 PM
Thirty supporters of Shia leader Moqtada Sadr have been shot dead in nearly 24 hours of fighting between rival Iraqi forces that has since died down, according to the latest toll from medics.
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8/30/2022 2:17:00 PM
Iraqi supporters of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began withdrawing Tuesday from Baghdad's Green Zone after he demanded fighting end between rival Shia forces and the army that left 23 dead and hundreds wounded.
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8/29/2022 11:14:03 PM
Shelling targeted Baghdad's high-security Green Zone Monday, a security source said after Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr said he was quitting politics, sparking chaos in which 12 of his supporters were killed.
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