BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Less than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics, the unpredictable Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reminded his rivals of the influence he still wields after his ...

Violent clashes between rival factions within Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim community left 23 people dead and hundreds more wounded this week. The mayhem ended abruptly when powerful Shiite cleric ...

BAGHDAD — After 10 weeks of fierce combat, an odd sense of normality has returned to this capital’s most battle-scarred neighborhood. The break in running clashes between U.S. troops and Shiite Muslim ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Khalil Ibrahim’s four sons are among thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric staging a sit-in outside Iraq’s parliament after storming the building last week in a ...

Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaking during weekly Friday prayers at a mosque in the town of Kufa, Iraq, in November, 2006.S Wissam Al-Okaili / AFP / Getty Has the government of Iraqi Prime ...

A small vehicle drives past a poster of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City, east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 14, 2018. He has been described as an impulsive, narcissistic egoist who ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday ordered sweeping restrictions on his ...

One of the most visible improvements in the security situation here in recent months was the steep, almost total, decrease in insurgent rocket attacks. That lull has now been shattered. As Shiite ...

In a dramatic parliamentary session on January 9, the new Iraqi parliament reelected Mohamed al-Halbousi for a second term as speaker. While the vote further widened intra-Shia divisions, it also ...

BAGHDAD — Where are the killers coming from? That was the question U.S. officers pondered at a cramped command post called Apache. They examined a map showing where scores of corpses had turned up in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAGHDAD (AP) — Khalil Ibrahim’s four sons ...