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Two rival Shiite Muslim blocs are holding competing sit-ins in Baghdad, ramping up tensions in conflict-weary Iraq, but shopkeeper Mustafa says he's more worried about how he's going to make a living."We have no work," said the man in his forties as a lone fan pumped hot summer air around his clothes store.The two camps are "defending their personal interests", he charged, declining to provide his surname due to security concerns. Political deadlock has left Iraq wi...

Two rival Shiite Muslim blocs are holding competing sit-ins in Baghdad, ramping up tensions in conflict-weary Iraq, but shopkeeper Mustafa says he's more worried about how he's going to make a living.

BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq’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 government in the wake of elections last October, has been facing a […]

The storming of the Iraqi parliament by supporters of Al-Sadr was motivated by years of political impasse — threatening Iraq's democracy and peaceIraq’s stricken democracy is being stress-te

Supporters of Iraq’s Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gathered for Friday prayers ahead of a counter-rally by their opponents later in the day.The opposing

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Supporters of Iraq’s pro-Iran Coordination Framework began their own Baghdad sit-in Friday in riposte to a sit-in outside parliament by the rival Sadrist

Supporters of Iraq's powerful Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr rallied at Friday prayers, as their opponents gathered for a rival demonstration in the politically-divided country.

Rival sit-ins deepen Iraq political deadlock