November 22, 2024
PAKISTAN

Supporters of Moqtada Sadr stage a sit-in outside a courthouse

BAGHDAD: Tuesday’s sit-in by supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr outside the supreme court raised the stakes in a conflict with an adversarial coalition.In order to monitor the situation, caretaker prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi cut short a trip to Egypt, where he was scheduled to participate in a summit of five nations. According to his […]

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International

Sadrists are told to leave parliament, but they continue to demonstrate

BAGHDAD: As calls for negotiation between political opponents grow, a senior official from the Iraqi Sadrist movement urged his followers to take their four-day occupation of the parliament outside on Tuesday. A rival Shiite faction’s choice for prime minister incited supporters of influential preacher Moqtada Sadr, whose political bloc in elections in October won the […]

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