Post-ISIL Iraq: decoding Muqtada al-Sadrs Gulf visits on August 21, 2017MUQTADA al-Sadr is the scion of one of Iraq’s most important families of Shia clerics, which has traditionally been associated with the country’s poor underclass. Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Sadrist movement took up arms against the occupation and quickly spiralled out of control. Members of his Mehdi Army were widely […]