NewsweekopediaShiite MilitiasRSS

Sort By: RelevancePub. DateSection

• ‘An Honor I Do Not Claim’

  …cheaper to pay people than to shoot them. The second had a great deal to do with Iran, and that is the ceasefire of the Mahdi Army , which came about as a result of Iranian efforts in cooperation with the government of Iraq to persuade Moqtada al-Sadr to …

  By Lennox Samuels

  06/25/2009International
• Living With The Dead

  …panorama of bereavement. I saw it briefly in 2004 after Shiite militias and U.S. forces battled here. With the fighting long over, I ……makes symbolic ground for those keen to sow it. The radical Mahdi Army has the best-kept space, decorated in flowers and pastel …

  By Larry Kaplow

  06/18/2009Culture
• Iraq Bombings Threaten to Renew Chaos

  …providing all-important intelligence on threats. Worst of all, and so far not occurring, government forces or rogue Shiite militias could try to exact the kind of street vengeance that made 2006-7 so horrendous and required the American troop surge just to get …

  By Larry Kaplow

  04/24/2009Blogs
• The Good News from Iraq's Election Day

  Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi. But he cast his vote for a Shiite member of the list who was reputed to have stopped Shiite militias intent on attacking an Adhamiya mosque in 2006. Not everyone got to exercise their choice. Government bureaucrat Ala

  By Larry Kaplow

  01/31/2009Blogs
• A Turnaround Strategy

  …regained a position of strength, having killed or captured many Sunni fighters. (And after many more were savagely killed by Shiite militias .) But the basic idea is obvious—to divide the enemy and thereby reduce the number of diehard opponents arrayed against you. The process of …

  By Fareed Zakaria

  01/31/2009International

• « Prev
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• Next »