His Mahdi Army movement began as an anti-US insurrection in 2004 and was in near control of the south of Iraq until the then prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, crushed it in Operation Saulat al-Fursan (Charge of the Knights) in 2008. ..…

TEHRAN - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu assured Russian to Ankara, Alexei Yerkhov, that Turkey would not provide United States with the opportunity to study S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, in Turkish Foreign Ministry said... ..…