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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
