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Followers of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr pray in a street as they attend open-air Friday prayers, in the Shi’ite stronghold of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 14, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The leader of Iraq’s Sadrist movement, Moqtada Al-Sadr, met with Iraq’s most senior Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, in a well-publicized visit on Sunday, despite Sadr’s repeated claims that he has retired from Iraqi politics. A...
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An April 10, 2003 photo shows US Marines walking past a dismounted statue of Saddam Hussein on Baghdad’s Fardous Square. (AFP PHOTO)
by Amir Taheri | Jan 10, 2014 | Opinion
Anyone listening to Iraq these days would hear the beating of war drums. Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki appears to be preparing for a military assault against opposition groups in Anbar province, with the besieged city of Fallujah as the principal target. It may be too...
