Topic: Muqtada al-Sadr

A radical anti-US Shiite cleric warned of "war" if US forces stayed in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal, in a brief statement viewed on Wednesday.Moqtada al-Sadr did not give any further details in the written reply to a ...

Iraq's Sadr says Iran will not hand over militant

Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that Iran has refused to hand over a militant known as the "Shiite Zarqawi," a former commander in his militia, to face justice in Iraq."We demanded that they return him back to Iraq ...

Iraq's Sadr tells US troops to go home

Radical anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called for US forces to return home to their families in a rare English message that threatens violence but also appeals to Christian sentiment."Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families ...

Iraq's Sadr warns against post-2011 US presence

Radical anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned that any US training mission in Iraq after 2011 would amount to an occupation force and need to be opposed by "military means," in a letter seen on Sunday.The letter, released on Saturday in the ...
All followers of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr must sign a strict code of conduct after repeated complaints over rogue elements of his militia, a document seen by AFP showed Thursday.Signed by the anti-US Shiite cleric and distributed throughout his organisation ...

Iraq Shi'ite militia splinters into hit squads, gangs

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army has spawned dozens of renegade splinter groups which frequently assassinate Iraqi officials on behalf of foreign sponsors, Sadrist and security officials say.The Mehdi Army, which fought against U.S. troops after ...

Iraq's Mehdi Army faces splits, wary of return to war

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is reviving fears of sectarian violence with a warning he will unleash his Shi'ite Mehdi Army militia again if U.S. forces stay in the country beyond a year-end deadline.But for ...

Iraq's Sadr rallies supporters against U.S. troop extension

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr brought thousands of Shi'ite supporters onto the streets of Baghdad on Thursday in a show of force against any extension of the U.S. military presence in Iraq past a year-end deadline.Sadr ...
MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP / Getty Images. Afghan riot police deploy to confront demonstrators after Florida pastor Terry Jones' burning of a Koran...

People turn against Iraqi police after bombing

0 View Larger Image . Anger at Iraq's security forces boiled over Thursday after a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb beside an outdoor funeral...