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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)
by Hamza Mustafa | Jan 24, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sadr movement leader, Moqtada Al-Sadr, struck a fatal blow to the seven-member committee tasked by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki to consider the demands of protesters, announcing the withdrawal of all Sadr movement ministers from this...
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, left, and Iraq’s Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, right, are seen at a ceremony marking the 2003 death of Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
by Sherzad Shekhani | Jan 16, 2013 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat – The leader of the Shia National Iraqi Alliance (NIA), Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, has recently taken steps with several Iraqi political forces and blocs in order to ease the stagnant political situation in Iraq. The country is going through a...
