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After a day of sleeping, praying and even swimming in the Green Zone, the government citadel historically off limits to ordinary Iraqis, protesters began leaving Sunday evening on orders from the man who had sent them:Moktada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric. In a statement issued […]

Terrified residents fled a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria’s divided city of Aleppo on Saturday, as key regime backer Russia rejected calls to rein in its ally. Aleppo was left out of a new temporary U.S.-Russian brokered truce that appeared […]