Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر, romanized: Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader. He...
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in al-Kadhimiya, Iraq. He was father-in-law to Muqtada al-Sadr, a cousin of Muhammad Sadeq al-Sadr and Imam Musa as-Sadr. His father Haydar al-Sadr was...
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Sadrist Movement (redirect from Sadr 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...
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Mahdi Army (redirect from Al-Mahdi Army)
God hasten his re-appearence) was an Iraqi Shia militia created by Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. The Mahdi Army rose to international...
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to Sadr City in his honour. Sadr City was the first part of Baghdad to overthrow the Baath Party in 2003. Mohammad al-Sadr's son, Muqtada al-Sadr, is...
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active but in smaller scale. Muqtada al-Sadr, son of an anti-Saddam activist Muhammad-Sadiq al-Sadr who, after his newspaper al-Hamza was shut down by Coalition...
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with Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim if Ayatollah al-Haeri had ordered it. Recently, Muqtada al-Sadr and Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim signed a pact to end all...
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Iraq, al-Hakim's life was in danger because of his work to encourage Shiite resistance to Saddam Hussein and from a rivalry with Muqtada al-Sadr, the son...
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attempted assassination of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi began the crisis. On 18 November Muqtada al-Sadr said he would like to form a majority government...
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Execution of Saddam Hussein (category Al-Kadhimayn)
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and his subsequent fall through the trap door of the gallows. Saddam's body was returned to his birthplace of Al-Awja, near...
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banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement. The most intense periods of fighting in Sadr City occurred during the first uprising...
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scholar Ismail Sadr, (dies 1919), son of Sadr-ed-Deen bin Saleh Mohammad Mohammad-Sadeq Sadr (1943–1999) Muqtada al-Sadr, (born 1973), son of Sadr Mohammad...
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Sheikh Mithal al-Hasnawi (Arabic: مثال الحسناوي) was a representative of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Karbala, Iraq, before being captured by US...
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live al-Sadr". The mob killed Al-Rufaye with bayonets and knives; al-Khoei, who was critically injured by this time, was killed later. Muqtada al-Sadr was...
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Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (Arabic: موسى صدر الدین الصدر) (Persian: موسی صدرالدین صدر); 4 June 1928 – disappeared 31 August 1978) was a Lebanese-Iranian...
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Al-Sadr Online was the official website of the High Board for Media of Al-Sadr's Office. The High Board is the media organization of Muqtada Al-Sadr, a...
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Sadr City (Arabic: مدينة الصدر, romanized: Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr), formerly known as Al-Thawra (Arabic: الثورة, romanized: aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City (Arabic:...
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Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr is said to have been the ideological father of the Islamic Dawa Party. Jaafar al-Sadr is the brother-in-law of Muqtada al-Sadr, who married...
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United States and Iraqi forces on one side and the Mahdi Army led by Muqtada al-Sadr on the other in the Iraqi city of Najaf in August 2004. On 31 July...
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al-Sadr Musa al-Sadr Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr Muqtada al-Sadr List of Shi'a Muslim scholars of Islam...
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" Around 26 March 2016, Muqtada al-Sadr also started his own sit-in, inside the Green Zone, urging Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to do what he had announced...
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regions, such as the "Sunni Triangle". Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of a large anti-American faction in Baghdad's Sadr City, issued a fatwa allowing his followers...
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Sayyid Muhammad Hasan al-Sadr (Arabic: السيد محمد حسن الصدر; 7 January 1882 – 3 April 1956) was an Iraqi Shi'ite statesman. He served as Prime Minister...
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al-Asadi. The mainly Shia movement having the support of religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr strongly opposed a third term form Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...
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Sheikh Aws al-Khafaji, who was previously aligned with Muqtada al-Sadr. The group claims an affinity with the similarly named Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas group...
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engineers and miscellaneous logistics personnel and militants from Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, along the Southwest side of the airport wall in an area...
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2004 Iraq spring fighting (section Al Anbar operations)
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia, the Mahdi Army, in the south of the country. Muqtada al-Sadr also has great influence in the Sadr City section...
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the support of two Shiite blocs, that of Muqtada al-Sadr and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, that his Dawa party has often been...
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Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011) (category Al-Qaeda activities in Iraq)
organization supports the government of Nouri Al-Maliki. Supporters of the young Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are largely impoverished men from the Shi'a...
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Sheikh Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli is a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and confederate of Muqtada al-Sadr. On 7 May 2004, responding to pictures of the abuse of...
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