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  2. Muqtada al-Sadr - Wikipedia

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    Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر, romanized: Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) [3] is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader.He inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father, [4] and founded the now dissolved Mahdi Army militia in 2003 that resisted the American occupation of Iraq.

  3. Siege of Sadr City - Wikipedia

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    On March 31, al-Maliki's curfew was lifted in most parts of Baghdad following another unilateral ceasefire called by Muqtada al-Sadr. However the curfew remained in effect in Sadr City into April and al-Sadr's ceasefire lasted until April 6. [18]

  4. Sadrist Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Sadrist Movement (Arabic: التيار الصدري al-Tayyār al-Sadrī) is an Iraqi Shi'a Islamic national movement and political party, led by Muqtada al-Sadr.. The Sadrist Movement ended as largest political party in the October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election, with 73 seats in Parliament, but in June 2022, during the 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis, Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc ...

  5. Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback

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    NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political comeback two years after a failed and ultimately deadly high-stakes move to ...

  6. Iraqi cleric al-Sadr demands closure of U.S. embassy over ...

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    Iraq's Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the Iraqi government and lawmakers on Friday to close the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in response to Washington's "unfettered support" for Israel. The ...

  7. Analysis-Iraqi cleric Sadr flexes muscle with torching of ...

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    Sadr is the son of revered Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, who was assassinated in 1999 after openly criticising then-dictator Saddam Hussein. His father’s cousin, Mohammed Baqir, was ...

  8. 2022 Baghdad clashes - Wikipedia

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    On 29 August 2022, hours after Sadr announced his withdrawal from politics, violent protests broke out in Baghdad, Iraq, between Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters and pro-Iranian forces. The Iraqi government remained mostly neutral during the clashes.

  9. Mahdi Army - Wikipedia

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    The Mahdi Army (Arabic: جيش المهدي, romanized: Jaysh al-Mahdi) was an Iraqi Shia militia created by Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. [9]The Mahdi Army rose to international prominence on April 4, 2004, when it spearheaded the first major armed confrontation against the US forces in Iraq from the Shia community.