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What’s Driving the Power Struggle in Iraq?

A power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iran-backed Shiite rivals has escalated with his supporters breaking into parliament and beginning an open-ended sit-in protest. The tussle over who gets to form the next government has deepened a fissure in the Shiite community that has…

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Briton Leaves Iraq after Antiquities Conviction Quashed

A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and has left the country, his family said Sunday. Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced in June to 15 years in an Iraqi prison. A Baghdad appeals court overturned the conviction and last week ordered his release. Fitton…

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Family of geologist freed from Iraq thank ‘kindness of strangers’ for his return

Jim Fitton, 66, was arrested on March 20 and jailed for 15 years for collecting stones and shards of pottery as souvenirs.

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Iraq cleric's followers camped out in parliament for 2nd day

Hundreds of followers of an influential Shiite cleric are camped out inside the Iraqi parliament, after toppling security walls around the building and storming in the previous day

The Independent UK

Explainer: What's driving the power struggle in Iraq?

A power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi'ite rivals has escalated with his supporters breaking into parliament and beginning an open-ended sit-in protest.

Reuters

Sadr's followers set up for long sit-in at Iraq parliament

Supporters of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr erected tents and prepared for an open-ended sit-in at Iraq's parliament on Sunday, in a move that could prolong political deadlock or plunge the country into fresh violence.

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Hundreds of protesters camp at Iraq parliament for a second day

Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr erect tents and prepare for a sit-in protesting his rivals’ efforts to form a government.

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Sadr Opts for ‘Coup’ in Iraq

Leader of the Sadrist movement, cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, is seeking to seize control of the transitional period in Iraq to end the “current political equation”, but he may also be speeding up the eruption of a confrontation on the ground with the rival pro-Iran Coordination Framework. Hundreds of Sadr’s supporters…

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Sadr’s Followers Set Up for Long Sit-in at Iraq Parliament

With mattresses strewn about, food trucked in and protesters playacting as lawmakers, hundreds of followers of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were camped out Sunday inside the Iraqi parliament after toppling security walls around the building and storming in the previous day. The protesters pledged to hold an open-ended sit-in…

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Commentary: Iran is trying to play the Saudis against the US. It won’t work

With President Joe Biden having departed the Middle East, the region’s two prime antagonists are thinking about just getting along. Iran and Saudi Arabia, having completed five rounds of talks in Iraq over the past year, both said recently that they were moving toward higher-level negotiations on reconciliation. Paradoxically, this…

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Iraq: Thousands of protesters storm parliament building in Baghdad for second time in a week

Thousands of protesters in Iraq stormed parliament on Saturday for the second time this week.

Evening Standard

Ted Cruz fist bump upsets backers of bill to help veterans sickened by burn pits

WASHINGTON — As the Senate voted this week on a bill that would help veterans sickened by toxic fumes from burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was standing near the front of the room chatting with colleagues.

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Sadr’s Supporters Breach Parliament Building in Baghdad's Green Zone Again

Thousands of supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday stormed Baghdad's fortified government zone and breached Iraq's parliament, the second time in a week, to protest the government formation efforts led by Iran-backed groups. Protesters rallied by Sadr and his social-political Sadrist Movement tore down concrete barriers and entered…

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Supporters of Iraqi cleric Sadr storm Baghdad's Green Zone again

Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed Baghdad's fortified government zone and broke into parliament on Saturday for the second time in a week, leaving at least 125 people injured and escalating a political stand-off.

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Al Jazeera

Iraqi protesters storm parliament for second time in a week

Supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr occupy parliament to prevent the nomination of a new PM.

France 24

Iraqi cleric Sadr’s supporters storm parliament for second time in a week

Supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday stormed the parliament building inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone for the second time in a week, an AFP photographer said.

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Sadr Supporters Hold New Protest in Baghdad

Thousands of supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr protested Saturday three days after storming the Iraqi parliament. Brandishing Iraqi flags and portraits of Sadr, the protesters gathered at the end of a bridge leading to Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" district of government buildings and foreign embassies, an AFP correspondent reported.…

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Martin Schram: Veterans become political pawns

It was four in the afternoon on March 10, 1991, when the first planned explosion of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons went off at the U.S. weapons depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq, and the first gray-white smoke cloud that would come to be called The Plume wafted skyward and drifted over the…

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New Book Explores Egyptian-Ottoman Campaign on Hejaz, Nejd

In his new book, Researcher Dr. Ismail al-Salamat, explores the campaign of Turkish commander Ahmed Tusun Pasha known as ‘Tusun Pasha’ (second son of Muhammad Ali of Egypt) in the Arabian Peninsula, mainly Hejaz and Nejd in 1811 AD. Few researches studied this campaign despite its significance in the political…

Al Jazeera

Iraq’s political chaos: Why did protesters storm the parliament?

Iraq has been unable to form a government since it held parliamentary elections in October last year.

Evening Standard

Protesters storm Iraqi parliament building to protest Prime Minister appointment

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters breached Baghdad's parliament on Wednesday chanting anti-Iran curses in a demonstration against a nominee for prime minister by Iran-backed parties.The majority of the protesters were followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.The demonstrators, all of them men, were seen walking on tables of the parliament floor,…

Daily Mirror

Hundreds storm parliament building with protesters pictured lounging on desks

Supporters were pictured dancing and singing in parliament, walking on tables and waving Iraqi flags, all while security forces inside the compound, which includes the US embassy, appeared to allow the protesters in

The Independent UK

Iraq: Hundreds of Muqtada al-Sadr supporters storm parliament

Protesters walk on tables and sit in chairs of MPs

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zero Hour for Change in Iraq ... What Is the Purpose of Sadr Protests?

Thousands of supporters of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed Iraq’s parliament and Baghdad’s Green Zone to protest against Mohammed al-Sudani's nomination of prime minister by the pro-Iran Coordination Framework.

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