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Sadr reactivates Mahdi Army
3 January 2020 09:16 GMT
Moqtada al-Sadr, the cleric-turned-politician who fought US troops in the tumultuous years following the Iraq war, has announced he is reforming his Mahdi Army militia.
Taking to Twitter, Sadr ordered "fighters, particularly those from the Mahdi Army, to be ready" following the assassination, and eulogised Soleimani. The Mahdi Army disbanded in 2008 following years of bloody conflict with US troops.
These days Sadr stands at the head of the Iraqi parliament's largest bloc, and with his votes combined with the Hashd al-Shaabi militia's political bloc we could see a law being passed ordering US forces' expulsion from the country.