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Iyad Allawi (L), Iraq’s vice president and head of the secular Iraqiya coalition, speaks during a joint news conference with Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr in Najaf, Iraq, on March 3, 2011. (Reuters/Ali Abu Shish)
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Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr (L) speaks next to Iraq’s Defense Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi (R) during a news conference in Najaf, south of Baghdad, on January 19, 2015. (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani)
Militias undermine Iraqi army, says Sadr
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sectarian militias and other armed groups are a danger to the “unity and prestige” of the Iraqi army, the head of the Shi’ite Sadrist Movement, Moqtada Al-Sadr, said on Sunday. Speaking at a joint press conference with Iraq’s Minister of...Caption:
Ammar al-Hakim (L), leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hold a news conference in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, May 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Haider Ala.)
Iraq: Sadr calls for new regional foreign policy
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Shi’ite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr called on Baghdad to pursue a new regional foreign policy with the formation of a new government led by Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi. “We must open up to the other countries [in the region] to...Caption:
Iraqi Shiite men parade their weapons in the shrine city of Karbala, in central Iraq, on June 25, 2014 after they volunteered to protect the Shiite holy sites in central and south Iraq in case of an attack by Sunni militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Iraq’s top Shiite […]
Opinion: A War of Sectarians, Not a Sectarian War
The current crisis in Iraq is routinely described by international media as a “sectarian” war. The assumption is that Iraq is being torn apart because its various component parts, especially Arab Sunnis and Shi’ites, have somehow decided they can no longer live...Caption:
Volunteers for the newly formed “Peace Brigades” participate in a parade in the Shi’ite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, June 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)