News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 month ago
The Shiite Muslim movement loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada Sadr may seem an unlikely standard-bearer for democracy in the new Iraq. It owes fealty to a leader whose stature derives from his religious lineage...And its Mahdi Army militia was...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| about 1 month ago
In an unexpected twist for Iraq's nascent democracy, an anti-American party is speeding ahead with electoral reform while the Iraqi parliament is gridlocked over how to run national elections slated for January. On Friday, supporters of radical...
News Source: Press TV
| about 1 month ago
The Sadr movement, allied with the Iraqi National Alliance bloc, is expected to run against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition. The primaries were held in 350 polling stations nationwide, except the autonomous region of Kurdistan...