by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Powerful Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday called on the country’s judiciary to dissolve parliament by end of next week, threatening unspecific consequences if it does not do what he...
by admin | Jun 9, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press BAGHDAD: Eight months after national elections, Iraq still doesn’t have a government and there seems to be no clear way out of the dangerous deadlock. Political elites are embroiled in cutthroat competition for power, even as the country...
by admin | Dec 28, 2021 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Iraq’s supreme court upheld the results of the October election of Shiite Muslim cleric and possible U.S. ally Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday, rejecting an appeal filed by pro-Iran factions.The Federal Supreme Court had not ratified the Oct. 10 election results,...
by admin | Dec 7, 2021 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press BASRA: An explosion rocked the center of Iraq’s southern city of Basra on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding four others, according to Iraqi security forces. The governor of Basra, Asaad al-Idani, told reporters on the scene...
by admin | Nov 7, 2021 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By PTI BAGHDAD: Troops and patrols deployed throughout Baghdad on Sunday following the failed assassination attempt with drones that targeted Iraq’s prime minister in his residence. The attack significantly raised tensions, sparked by the refusal of Iran-backed...
