BAGHDAD( Reuters)-Powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged the country's paramilitaries on

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr celebrate holding his posters, after the announcement of

electoral commission had confirmed Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr secured 73 out of Parliament’s 329 seats

Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq

Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada Sadr.... Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called

Wednesday in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighbourhood, Iraqi police and medical workers said.A military

BANGKOK — One of Indonesia’s most notorious terrorists, the Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, was

council on charges of raising funds for the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah( JI) group blamed for deadly

among some of those who had returned with Khomeini to Tehran in triumph. Bani-Sadr recalled in that

BEIRUT — In May, the Saudi government barred the use of loudspeakers to amplify prayers and sermons at mosques and ordered that the volume of the traditional call to prayer, which has long echoed across the kingdom five times a day, be turned down by two-thirds. Support our journalism.... The power of the clergy has also extended beyond the country’s borders, as many Muslims around the world look toward the kingdom for religious guidance and rulings. But Mohammed, known by his initials as MBS,