Residents of Baghdad woke up on Tuesday to the sounds of intermittent gunfire and explosions after a night of clashes between security forces and supporters of cleric Sayyed Muqtada Al-Sadr. Clashes erupted between security forces and Al-Sadr supporters in Baghdad’s Green Zone despite curfew imposed in the capital. Dozens of ...
Iraqi cleric Sayyed Muqtada Al-Sadr has announced that he is quitting political life and closing his political offices across the country. “I hereby announce my final withdrawal,” Al-Sadr said on Monday. The statement, published on Twitter, comes amid months of protests by his supporters backing his call for the dissolution ...
