BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Thursday to help purge Iraqi security forces of militia members. But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

Al-Sadr is in Iran. More than 900 people -- fighters and civilians -- have been killed in Sadr City fighting since late March, with 17 others slain over the last 24 hours, according to the U.S ...

Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is calling for an anti-American protest in the Iraqi city of Najaf on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Al-Sadr's statement calling for a ...

Sadr also emphasized that no individual or faction has the right to determine Iraq’s fate, stating, “The use and display of ...

Iraq’s upcoming elections could mark a turning point in regional dynamics as Iran’s influence wanes with early signs of ...

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Sadr’s own spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, has long been based in Iran’s holy city of Qom. It was precisely such simplistic moralizing that set the stage for the 2003 ...

Muqtada al-Sadr, a charismatic Shia cleric and vociferous critic of Iran, looked set to form a government. But the pro-Iranian forces staged violent street clashes and, through clerical and ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The Iranian regime spent decades building the Axis of Resistance, a coalition of anti-Western militias that extended Tehran’s influence deep into the Arab world. But what takes years to build can ...