Iraq's Sadr reactivates anti-US 'Mahdi Army' after strike

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NSTworld: Iraq’s militia leader turned populist politician Moqtada Sadr reactivated his Mahdi Army Friday following a US strike that killed top Iranian and Iraqi commanders.

Taking to Twitter, Sadr ordered “fighters, particularly those from the Mahdi Army, to be ready” following the strike, reactivating the notoriously anti-American force nearly a decade after he dissolved it.

 

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