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Members of Shi’ite group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, who support Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, carry the coffins of fighters from their group during a funeral in Najaf on December 13, 2013. (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani)

Iraqi Shi’ite ayatollah issues fatwa allowing fighting alongside Assad

by Nazeer Rida | Dec 16, 2013 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Kazem Al-Haeri has issued the first public fatwa sanctioning fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces. Haeri, who is based in the Shi’ite holy city of Qom, Iran’s religious capital, has...

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Members of Shi’ite group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, who support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, carry the coffin of a fighter, draped with an Iraqi flag during a funeral in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad, November 29, 2013. The fighter was killed during clashes with the Free Syrian Army in Syria, according to the group. Picture taken November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Iraq: Inter-Shi’ite violence in Baghdad kills at least 1

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 1, 2013 | Middle East

Bagdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—At least one person was killed on Saturday in Zaafaraniya, a neighborhood in southeast Baghdad, after clashes between a pro-Sadrist militia and a militant group that has split away from it. Security sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the...

Iraq: Sadr avoids confrontation with Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq

by Hamza Mustafa | Oct 29, 2013 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Shi’ite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr has prohibited his supporters from engaging in confrontations with Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq, a Shi’ite group that had splintered from the Sadr Movement, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned. In a statement issued in...

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Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf. (AP Photo/ Alaa al-Marjani)

Sadr calls for curbs on armed group

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 9, 2013 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Al-Sadr Movement leader, Muqtada Al-Sadr, has reiterated his demand for the Iraqi government to curtail the activities of armed militias in Baghdad. The controversial cleric called on the residents of Al-Kazimiyah district and his supporters...

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Members of militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah carry a wreath on the occasion of the party’s Martyrs’ Day in southern Beirut, on November 12, 2012. ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images

The Shi’a Al-Qaeda

by Tariq Alhomayed | Feb 22, 2013 | Opinion

If an observer were to take a look at our region, he would find that we are face to face with mounting evidence of the “Shi’a Al-Qaeda”—otherwise known as Hezbollah—in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, as well as in the Gulf States, most notably Bahrain, and even in Libya...