1. Global Food Crisis
(Newsletter)

... Fierce fighting continues in Iraq Top_news By Agencies    Saturday, 29 March 2008 Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr, a Shia leader, have rejected a call by Iraq's prime minister to disa...

2. More Iraqi children join militias
(Newsletter)

...ion of Iraq in 2003, Ali Hamza, 14, has been a militiaman with the Shia Mahdi Army, commanded by the Shia preacher Moqtada al-Sadr. FULL STORY... Hamas: Israel must end occupation Special Reports...

3. Fight against Iran too familiar
(Newsletter)

... By Agencies    Monday, 05 February 2007 Iraqi and US forces have killed a top official of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's organisation in a raid on his home north of Baghdad. FULL STORY.....

4. George W Bush State of the Union 2007 Drinking Gam
(Newsletter)

... al-Sadr men seized Top_news By Agencies    Tuesday, 23 January 2007 More than 600 fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader, and 16 of their commanders have been captured in a ...

5. Obama's Secret War Profiteering Tax
(Opinions/Daily)

...hing more than Baghdad’s leaping into a gang war over control of Iraq’s Southern oil fields and oil-loading docks. Moqtada al-Sadr’s gangsters and the government-sponsored greedsters of SCIRI (the Sup...

6. Putting Lipstick on a Pig
(Opinions/op-ed)

...unni insurgents to fight al Qaeda in Iraq. In addition, in many Shi’i areas, the United States worked quietly with Moqtada al-Sadr’s militias to provide aid and reconstruction, thereby enabling a nati...

7. Attacking Basra on the Way to Iran?
(Opinions/Politic)

...es not lie in any plans that President Bush might have to bomb Iran. As things stand right now, the Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr and his fighters control Basra. Al-Sadr is closely aligned with the S...

8. More Iraqi children join militias
(Opinions/Society)

...ion of Iraq in 2003, Ali Hamza, 14, has been a militiaman with the Shia Mahdi Army, commanded by the Shia preacher Moqtada al-Sadr. FULL STORY... Youth involved in anti-US attacks and kidnappings Sin...

9. Blasts hit Baghdad amid Gates visit
(Archived/News/Arab)

A visit by the US defence secretary to Baghdad has been marred by bomb blasts and protests against his arrival  in the Iraqi capital.

10. Iraq parliament approves US pact
(Archived/News/Arab)

Iraq's parliament has approved a security pact that allows US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years.