Populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States, has all but won Iraq’s parliamentary election, the electoral commission said, in a surprise turn of fortune for the Shia leader. In the first election since Islamic State was defeated in the country, Iran-backed Shia militia chief Hadi al-Amiri’s bloc was in second place,...
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