Muqtada al-Sadr calls supporters to join fight against "terrorism"

al-Arabiya reports that Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has joined Ali al-Sistani in calling on Iraqis to fight "terrorism".

The scholar, who heads the the influential Sadrist movement and officially withdrew from politics in February 2013, reportedly called on people to confront "militias trying to turn Iraq into a mess."