Deadly protests as powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al ... - CBS News

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr chant slogans as they gather outside the local government headquarters in the city of Nasiriyah, in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, August 29, 2022. Read More

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resigns from politics, sparking ...

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resigned on August 29, 2022 and closed his party’s office. AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File. An Associated Press photographer heard gunshots being fired and ... Read More

Followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric storm palace; curfew called - Los ...

BAGHDAD — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes ... Read More

Powerful Iraqi cleric calls for early elections as political crisis ...

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told followers Wednesday to continue their sit-in inside Iraq’s government zone, and called for the dissolution of parliament and early elections ... Read More

Clashes erupt after Iraqi Shiite cleric resigns, 15 dead

BAGHDAD — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes ... Read More

Iraq Shiite cleric’s supporters demand assembly be dissolved

BAGHDAD — Hundreds of supporters of an influential Shiite cleric in Iraq rallied on Tuesday in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone, demanding the dissolution of parliament and early elections. Read More

15 dead after protests erupt over Iraqi cleric's resignation - KREM.com

BAGHDAD, Iraq — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking ... Read More

Shiite cleric’s followers storm Iraq’s government palace as a ...

An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes with security ... Read More

Iraq's top Shiite cleric urges elections to end crisis

Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani called Friday for early elections to end the months of ... the ouster of the entire political class. Recommended For You News 2025-05 ... Read More

Iraq's top Shiite cleric warns against targeting Iran's leadership - MSN

Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani warned against targeting Iran's leadership and said that the Iran-Israel war could plunge the whole region into chaos. Sistani said in a ... Read More

Clashes erupt after Iraqi Shiite cleric resigns, 15 protesters dead

BAGHDAD >> An influential Shiite cleric announced today that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes with ... Read More