Amid increasing tensions between militias, Muqtada al-Sadr calls for reforming the PMU
Rival Shiite armed factions took their fight to Iraq’s key port city as leaders officially called for calm and closed offices.
BAGHDAD — Funeral processions had barely been held for the dozens who lost their lives earlier in the week before rival Shiite armed groups continued shedding each other’s blood — this time further south.
At least four people were reportedly killed on Thursday in Iraq’s oil-rich, key southern port city of Basra, though one person close to the government claimed that six had been killed and that the fighting was “ongoing.”
