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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s long-running power struggle between rival Shiite camps devolved into bloody street violence this week – the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum.

The country’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said the powerful cleric’s call to his supporters to end the protests is creating a basis to start talks in the near future

Silence has settled on the streets of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad after influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to stop protests and leave the citys green zone, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Tuesday

Iraqi supporters of powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr began withdrawing on Tuesday from Baghdad’s Green Zone after he demanded fighting end between rival Shiite forces and the army that left 23 dead and hundreds wounded

For weeks, Iraqis have asked whether political tensions meant they were headed for civil war or a snap election. Last night, Baghdad saw its worst violence in years. Who is to blame, and where is the country headed now?

Iraq's powerful Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr has announced he is quitting political life and closing his political offices in a move that inflamed tensions and prompted protests by his supporters. Gunfire rang out in the Green Zone of the capital...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s long-running power struggle between rival Shiite camps devolved into bloody street violence this week — the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum. For 24 hours, loyalists of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr transformed the country’s government Green Zone into a front line, trading fire

EXPLAINER: What spurred the bloody armed clashes in Baghdad? | 2022-08-31 00:52:40

BAGHDAD, Aug 30, 2022 (AFP) - Shelling targeted Baghdad's high-security Green Zone on Monday, a security source said, after Shiite cleric

Nationwide curfew by Iraqi army. he chameleon-like Sadr has taken various positions and then reversed them.