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After four years in exile, the former radical Shia militant Muqtada al-Sadr returned to Iraq in early 2011. For the past two years, he has sought to rebrand himself as a moderate with an...
When Moktada al-Sadr, the populist Shiite leader and America’s most unyielding enemy here, returned to Iraq early last year after three years of self-imposed exile in Iran, he did so...
Former fighters and security officials say many Mehdi Army veterans have too much to lose to pick up the gun again.