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By AFPIraq's top executive powers and major parties agreed Mondayat a meeting boycotted by powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to work towards holding early elections, a week after deadly unrest, the prime minister's office said.The president, pri...
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The political situation in Iraq worsened when Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on August 29 quit political life in protest against the failure of forming a government with his Iranian-backed Shiite rivals.
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By AFPSupporters of Iraq's powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr started to withdraw from Baghdad's Green Zone on Tuesday after he urged them to end a protest following violence that killed 23 of them.Sadr gave followers "60 minutes" to withdraw from the high...
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By AFPUN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday called for "restraint" in Iraq and asked all parties to "take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation" as Baghdad's Green Zone descended into chaos, according to his spokesman.The secretary-general "has...
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By AFPDozens of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Monday stormed the Republican Palace, a ceremonial building inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone of government buildings, a security source said.Angry protesters "entered the Republ...
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By AFPSeveral hundred supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched a sit-in outside Iraq's top judicial body on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions in a showdown with a rival Shiite alliance.The Sadrists, who have already been camping outside parlia...
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By AFPIraq's powerful Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr on Wednesday called on the judiciary to dissolve parliament by the end of next week, urging his supporters to keep up a sit-in outside the legislature.Iraq, which has been without a new governme...
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Tens of thousands converged on Baghdad's Green Zone Friday for mass prayers in a new power play by Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr after his adversaries conditionally backed his call for early elections.Sadr, a longtime political and religious force...
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By AFPThe United Nations mission in Iraq called on leaders Wednesday to put their country first and end a long-running political power struggle, as tensions soar in the war-scarred nation.Nearly 10 months on from elections, the oil-rich country still...
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By AFPSupporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr occupied the country's parliament on Saturday with no plan to leave, deepening a months-long political standoff.It is the second time in days that supporters of the firebrand Shiite cleric have f...
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Thousands of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr protested Saturday in a new show of strength three days after storming parliament in a country mired in crises.Brandishing Iraqi flags and portraits of Sadr, the protesters gathered at the...
