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A family walks in front of a picture of top Shiite imam Moussa al-Sadr in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. The country's top Shiite imam vanished during a mystery-shrouded trip to Libya on Aug. 31, 1978. Thirty years later his disappearance remains a burning issue for Lebanon's Shiites, including Hezbollah an indication of his potency as a symbol for a community that has become a major player but still insists it hasn't been given the say it deserves in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)Missing cleric roils Lebanon's Shiites years later
21 hrs ago
For the rest of the world, the disappearance of the imam Moussa al-Sadr is ...
Iraqi police conduct a mock operation during a graduation ceremony held at a police academy, near the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)Senior Iraqi official suspected of militia links
1 day ago
A senior official in Nouri al-Maliki's government was in custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed ...
An Iranian woman walks past gold shops in the Grand Souq of Najaf, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)Iraq's holy city of Najaf witnessing a boom
2 days ago
The city's first airport is weeks away from opening, but already a bigger one is talked about. Land ...
Worshippers, one holding a placard showing anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, demonstrate against Condoleezza Rice's visit to the country and against a possible deal setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of Iraqi cities, after traditional Muslim Friday prayers in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)Aide: Iraq's al-Sadr may stay in Iran for years
7 days ago
Militant Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr plans to make a series of short visits to Iraq starting within ...
In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 file photo, members of the Mahdi army parade in the southern town of Basra, Iraq in commemoration of the assassination by suspected Saddam agents in 1999 of Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, the father of firebrand anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. In a series of interviews with The Associated Press since April, Abu Ali, who gave his nickname because of fears for his family's safety, gave insights into the life of a senior Mahdi Army commander, and now at 37 and eager to get on with his life, Abu Ali is headed back to the holy city of Najaf to resume his clerical studies. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)Warrior with AK-47 becomes cleric with pseudonym
17 days ago
Abu Ali has had enough of war. Nothing, he insists, can change his mind. ...
In this photo released by the US Army on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Platoon, G Troop, Task Force 1-35, 2nd Brigade Combat Team move out on patrol in search of weapons caches with an attachment of Iraqi Army soldiers during Operation Iron Pursuit on Monday, July 28, 2008 in 7 Nissan village, Diyala province, Iraq. Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later. (AP Photo/US Army, Sgt. Eric C. Hein, HO)Iraqis: US, Iraq close to deal on troop withdrawal
22 days ago
Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, ...
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A painter decorates a security wall sealing off the southern section of the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)US military works to keep out Iraq militia leaders
23 days ago
Iranian-backed Shiite militiamen who fled U.S.-Iraqi operations in Baghdad hope to return, but the ...
Report: UK troops cut deal and avoided Iraq battle
24 days ago
A secret deal with an Iran-backed militia kept British forces out of a battle in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, leaving U.S. and Iraqi forces to fight ...
Sadr Shifts Strategy in Iraq
25 days ago- Wall Street Journal: U.S. News
Shiite cleric Sadr is planning to rebrand and disarm the Mahdi Army by turning the militia into a civic and social service organization, in a move that ...
 
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