ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi National Security Service (INSS) on Friday announced the arrests of five people accused ...

Among the first wave of Iraqi Shia militias was the Mahdi Army, led by influential cleric Muqtada al Sadr and based mainly in the Shia-majority areas of Baghdad and southern Iraq. In the early years ...

Iraqi officials have arrested five people for involvement in the execution of a prominent Shia cleric and his sister during the brutal crackdown of former dictator Saddam Hussein on religious dissent.

Iraqi supporters of the influential Shia cleric-turned-political leader Muqtada al-Sadr have left Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone following a day of extreme violence in which thirty ...

Muqtada al-Sadr refuses to negotiate over forming the next government and is preventing the Iraqi Parliament from electing a prime minister and president. Meanwhile, his ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – “No to uncontrolled weapons and uncontrolled groups,” declared Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr in a strongly worded post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. In his post, ...

Mr. Al-Sharaa has also reaffirmed Syria’s commitment ... views Iran’s weakening as a window of opportunity. So does Muqtada as-Sadr, a Shiite cleric and militia boss widely viewed as Iraq ...

A day before he was to be sentenced for anti-Islamic activities, Momika was killed in his apartment in Sweden by assailants ...

ERBIL – (Kurdistan 24) – Influential Iraqi cleric and political kingmaker Muqtada al-Sadr gave a vague warning in a tweet on Tuesday that the political elite and the general population alike must ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped by a suspected Iraqi militia while in Baghdad, with hopes that the Russian-Israeli researcher ...