Speaker deserves 2nd chance, Shiite says
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Iraq's firebrand Sunni Arab parliament speaker will not be removed from his post, a legislator from the country's most powerful Shiite political bloc said Friday.
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A popular former president has resumed his attacks against hardline Iranian clerics threatening to disqualify reformists from upcoming elections.
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TEHRAN, Feb. 5âA senior Iraqi Shiite leader said Monday at a news conference in Tehran that his country was urging Iran to hold talks with the United States and that such talks are important for the security of the region.
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Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister called on Saturday for the return of all officers of Saddam Hussein's disbanded army in a political overture to disaffected Sunni Arabs aimed at reducing sectarian violence.
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BAGHDAD, June 20 -- Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, a senior Shiite politician often mentioned as a potential prime minister, tendered his resignation last week in a move that reflects deepening frustration inside the Iraqi government with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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His war on terror may well have made things worse. He doesn't deserve another chance
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Moqtada Sadr, the radical Iraqi Shia cleric, appears in public for the first time in months.
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The political bloc of fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Tuesday it had resumed participation in Iraq's parliament, suspended last month in protest over an attack on a revered Shi'ite mosque.
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WASHINGTON -- The leader of a key Shi'ite Muslim faction in the Iraqi government told President Bush yesterday that his country's problems could not be solved by calling on his nation's neighbors or other international players, as a blue-ribbon commission is about to recommend.
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Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shiite cleric returned to the country on Wednesday from a hospital stay in London, calling for a mass demonstration
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The surprise return to Iraq of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country&#39;s most powerful religious leader, may help him win back support eroded by a radical Shi&#39;ite uprising.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Iraqi Parliament should replace embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a "less divisive and more unifying figure" to reconcile political and religious factions.
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DUBAI - An audiotape attributed to Al Qaedaâs deputy leader urged Muslims yesterday to organise resistance against âcrusader Americaâ and its allies throughout the world.
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BAGHDAD, May 25 -- Moqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric and militia leader who went into hiding before the launch of a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive in February, made his first public appearance in months today, delivering a sermon before thousands of worshipers at a mosque in the south...
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Almost a quarter of a century after his  death, an Iraqi Shi'ite theologian is inspiring a generation of  democrats in the Middle East.
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An American who served as Iraqâs electricity minister before being jailed on corruption charges.
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The country&#39;s most revered Shiite cleric returned to Iraq today after surgery in Britain, raising hopes that the rebellion here against the American