The New Muqtada al-Sadr Seeks Moderate Image in Iraq - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Mar 12, 2013

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (C) takes part in Friday prayers participated by Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim worshippers in a gesture of unity at the Abdul Qadir Gilani Mosque in Baghdad January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION) - RTR3C3I0 — Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (C) takes part in Friday prayers with Sunni and Shiite worshippers in a gesture of unity at the Abdul Qadir Gilani Mosque in Baghdad, Jan. 4, 2013. — REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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Protesters hold up a banner which reads "No No to the Baathists" during a rally against the former Baath Party return in Baghdad, February 7, 2010. Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR29X73

Iraq's Baathist Legacy Refuses to Fade Away

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Employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) take part in vote counting at an analysis center in Baghdad April 23, 2013. Voter participation in Iraq's provincial election on Saturday was 50 percent of eligible voters, the country's electoral authorities said after poll stations closed. Election officials said including results from a special vote a week earlier for members of the armed forces, total participation would be more than 51 percent. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS E

Iraqi Political Blocs Ponder Provincial Election Results

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Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani speaks during the first International Energy Arena in Arbil, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, May 20, 2012. Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting oil from its fields along a new pipeline to the Turkish border when the line is complete in August 2013, the region's natural resources minister Ashti Hawrami said on Sunday. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags : - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS) - RTR32CEM

KRG Prime MinisterBreaks Ice in Baghdad

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An Iraqi policeman stands guard next to election candidates posters in Baghdad March 3, 2010. Iraq will hold a parliamentary election on Sunday that could set it on a path to greater peace and prosperity or throw it back into the bloodshed and chaos that almost tore it apart in the seven years since the U.S. invasion. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR2B68L

Iraqi Provincial Election Campaigns Begin

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