Nearly a year after Saddam Hussein's capture, Iraq faced another defining moment as fierce fighting erupted in the holy city ...

The Council of Representatives of Iraq, the country’s beleaguered parliament, will meet on Thursday to elect a new president, according to the office of Iraqi parliament speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi—a ...

Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr announced on Wednesday the formal separation of the armed faction known as ...

Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Muqtada al-Sadr has been an unpredictable force to reckon with — as the U.S. military and the Iraqi government have learned. After leading a protest that ...

Just two decades ago, few Americans knew who Muqtada al-Sadr was. This was not because of their ignorance of Iraq. After all, few Iraqis knew who he was. A growing number of Americans had studied Iraq ...

Baghdad: Sadrist movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr has given his armed wing one week to complete its break from the movement and join state institutions, as a senior figure in Iraq’s ruling Coordination ...

Anti-American cleric blames Americans and their Iraqi allies. Picture of Riyadh al-Nouri, senior aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, is displayed during a funeral march in the Shiite holy ...

The front-runner in Iraqi elections, the populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, wasted little time trying to prove to potential allies that he is serious about shaking up the government and cleaning ...

Who are you and what have you done with Muqtada al-Sadr? The man impersonating Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric gave himself away early Wednesday when he called on the United Nations and Organization for ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Sarhang Hamasaeed, director of Middle East programs for the United States Institute of Peace, about popular Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's resignation. Violence in Baghdad ...

Iraq is caught in a power struggle between Washington and Tehran, with the Trump administration insisting that the next government disarm powerful Iran-backed militias. By Erika Solomon and Falih ...