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After two days of deadly unrest, armed supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr began to clear out of Baghdad’s Green Zone at the behest of the...
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After two days of deadly unrest, armed supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr began to clear out of Baghdad’s Green Zone at the behest of the...
BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq’s mercurial powerbroker, announced his retirement from politics as political gridlock in Iraq continues. Soon after the announcement, Sadr’s supporters stormed...
Dueling protests swept the streets of Baghdad on Friday. In doing so, they emphasized the rift between the two Shiite centers of power in...
The gap between Washington’s perspective of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and reality grows daily. Many in the State Department remember Kadhimi as the...
According to Iraqi and Turkish sources, a barrage of rockets struck the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul on...
Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens swept the streets of Baghdad in support of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The Shiite populist leader’s...
For years, Turkish forces have launched various military incursions targeting Kurds on its shared Iraqi border. In fact, Ankara’s operations targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced ISIS leader Maher al-Agal was killed in a drone strike in Syria. Responsible for overseeing the...
Iraq’s political stalemate continues almost nine months after elections. Earlier this month, Muqtada al-Sadr, whose movement won a plurality, called on his 73 parliamentary...
It was supposed to be a night of joy, of promising futures, of new life, as three Raiders headed to a bar in Erbil,...