In a statement last month, Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr said his movement would boycott the November elections, hinting he wants to “change the faces and save Iraq” – reportedly his endgame since ...
Struggles between Sunni and Shia forces have fed a Syrian civil war that threatens to transform the map of the Middle East, spurred violence that is fracturing Iraq and widened fissures in a number of ...
Like many from Lebanon's Shia community in 1985, I joined Hezbollah as a young man. My generation was inspired by the revolutionary fervor radiating out of Iran that called for our people to take up ...
Akram al Kaabi (left), co-founder of Asaib Ahl al Haq, with now-deceased Iranian Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani (middle). Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current ...
On July 27, two brigades from the mostly Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) stormed the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture, clashing with police. While the incident could be seen as a power struggle ...