Bahrain’s prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem and Iraq’s senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Iraq held a landmark meeting on Friday in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Ayatollah Sistani hosted the visiting Sheikh Qassem, who flew in from London earlier in the week after undergoing months of surgeries ...
Iraqi political and paramilitary leaders condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, and lawmakers said a meeting between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi was canceled due to a disagreement over venue. Sabah al Saadi, ...
